# Stoke Abbott

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Village in Dorset, England

Human settlement in England

Stoke Abbott Parish church of St Mary Stoke Abbott Location within Dorset Population 190 [1] OS grid reference ST453006 Unitary authority Dorset Ceremonial county Dorset Region South West Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town Beaminster Postcode district DT8 Police Dorset Fire Dorset and Wiltshire Ambulance South Western UK Parliament West Dorset List of places UK England Dorset 50°48′10″N 2°46′39″W / 50.8027°N 2.7776°W / 50.8027; -2.7776

**Stoke Abbott** is a village and [civil parish](/source/Civil_parishes_in_England) in west [Dorset](/source/Dorset), [England](/source/England), 2 miles (3.2 km) west of [Beaminster](/source/Beaminster). In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 190.[1]

The author [Ralph Wightman](/source/Ralph_Wightman), agriculturist, broadcaster, and native of Dorset, described the village as "a beautiful place of deep lanes, orchards and old houses, with a church of quiet charm",[2] and, in a similar vein, [Sir Frederick Treves](/source/Sir_Frederick_Treves%2C_1st_Baronet) in 1906 considered it "as pretty a village as any in Dorset".[3]

On [Waddon Hill](/source/Waddon_Hill) to the northwest of the village are the remains of earthworks of an Iron Age settlement, consisting of a low bank 9 metres (30 ft) wide and traces of a ditch, replaced in AD 50 to AD60 by a short lived Roman Fort, though historic quarrying around the hill has destroyed much of the fort. Mid-1st-century [Roman](/source/Ancient_Rome) and [Romano-British](/source/Roman_Britain) military artefacts were found on the hill's southern slopes in 1876–1878, and in Graham Webster's 1960's excavations. Roman artefacts from Chartknolle, a flat area further east, are on display in the village hall, along with a replica of a gold durotrigian stater. [4] In the [Domesday Book](/source/Domesday_Book) in 1086 the village was recorded as Stoche[5] and had 32 households.[6]

The parish church of St Mary the Virgin has [Norman](/source/Norman_England) origins but has been altered and added to over the centuries. The 12th-century [font](/source/Baptismal_font) is notable.[4] The poet [William Crowe](/source/William_Crowe_(poet)) was rector here between 1782 and 1786; at the end of his incumbency he published his most well known piece, *Lewesdon Hill*, about [the hill](/source/Lewesdon_Hill) to the west of the village.[7] The Very Rev [Hedley Robert Burrows](/source/Hedley_Robert_Burrows) (1887–1983), who later became [Archdeacon](/source/Archdeacon) of [Winchester](/source/Winchester) and then [Dean of Hereford](/source/Dean_of_Hereford), was incumbent at Stoke Abbott for a time.

## Politics

In the UK national parliament, Stoke Abbott is within the [West Dorset parliamentary constituency](/source/West_Dorset_(UK_Parliament_constituency)).

After [2019 structural changes to local government in England](/source/2019_structural_changes_to_local_government_in_England), Stoke Abbott is part of the [Marshwood Vale ward](/source/Marshwood_Vale_(ward)) which elects 1 member to [Dorset Council](/source/Dorset_Council_(UK)).[8]

## References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Stoke Abbott](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Stoke_Abbott).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-dfy_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-dfy_1-1) ["Parish Population Data"](https://www.dorsetforyou.com/344882). Dorset County Council. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Ralph Wightman (1983). *Portrait of Dorset* (4 ed.). Robert Hale Ltd. p. 154. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0 7090 0844 9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0_7090_0844_9).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Treves, Frederick, Sir (1906). [*Highways and Byways in Dorset*](https://archive.org/details/highwaysandbywa00penngoog). Macmillan & Co. Ltd. p. [284](https://archive.org/details/highwaysandbywa00penngoog/page/n312).{{[cite book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book)}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_multiple_names:_authors_list))

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-inventory_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-inventory_4-1) ["'Stoke Abbott', An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 1: West (1952), pp. 224-226"](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=127270). *British History Online*. University of London & History of Parliament Trust. November 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Dorset S–Z"](http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/dorset3.html#stokeabbot). *The Domesday Book Online*. domesdaybook.co.uk. Retrieved 22 April 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Place: Stoke \[Abbott\]"](http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/ST4500/stoke-abbott/). *Open Domesday*. domesdaymap.co.uk. Retrieved 22 April 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Hyams, John (1970). *Dorset*. B. T. Batsford Ltd. pp. 137–8. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-7134-0066-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7134-0066-8).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["Area profile for Marshwood Vale - Dorset Council"](https://gi.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/insights/AreaProfiles/Ward/marshwood-vale). *gi.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk*. Retrieved 24 February 2024.

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