Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 50.8571°N -2.3374°W |
Official Name: | Stoke Wake |
Static Image Name: | All Saints, Stoke Wake.JPG |
Static Image Caption: | All Saints, Stoke Wake |
Population: | 60 |
Population Ref: | [1] |
Civil Parish: | Stoke Wake |
Unitary England: | Dorset |
Shire County: | Dorset |
Region: | South West England |
Constituency Westminster: | North Dorset |
Post Town: | Blandford Forum |
Postcode Area: | DT |
Postcode District: | DT11 |
Os Grid Reference: | ST764063 |
Stoke Wake is a hamlet[2] and civil parish, formerly part of the Whiteway hundred in north Dorset, England. It is situated under Bulbarrow Hill on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, west of Blandford Forum. Dorset County Councils 2013 mid-year estimate of the parish population is 60.[1]
In 1086 Stoke Wake was recorded in the Domesday Book as Stoche;[3] it had 15 households, 4 ploughlands, 150NaN0 of meadow and one mill. It was in the hundred of Hilton and the lord and tenant-in-chief was Shaftesbury Abbey.[4]
The parish church was built in 1872.[5]