In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described South Stoke like this:
STOKE (South), a parish, with a village, in Bath district, Somerset; 2¼ miles SSW of Bath r. station. It has a post-office under Bath. Acres, 863. Real property, £2,593. Pop., 375. Houses, 72. Mitford Castle, Mitford House, Avon Hill House, and South Stoke Villa are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £200.* Patron, the Rev. H. Calverley. The church has a Norman door and a later English tower, and was restored and enlarged in 1845. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Roman Catholics.
South Stoke through time
South Stoke is now part of Bath and North East Somerset district. Click here for graphs and data of how Bath and North East Somerset has changed over two centuries. For statistics about South Stoke itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of South Stoke in Bath and North East Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13256
Date accessed: 23rd April 2024
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