Stoke, Kent
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| Population | 1063 |
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| Parish | Stoke |
| Unitary authority | Medway |
| Ceremonial county | Kent |
| Region | South East |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | ROCHESTER |
| Postcode district | ME3 |
| Dial code | 01634 |
| Police | Kent |
| Fire | Kent |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| UK Parliament | Medway to be replaced 2007 by Rochester and Strood |
| European Parliament | South East England |
| List of places: UK • England • Kent | |
Stoke is a civil parish on the Hoo Peninsula in Kent, England, to the south of Allhallows, on the north of the Medway Estuary. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,063.
The are two small villages here, Stoke and Lower Stoke, on the low lying fertile farmland that is at most 17m above highwater. The farmland descends to the Stoke Saltings- a make of intricate channels and small islands beloved by wading birds. The church of Ss Peter and Paul is in Stoke, now sometimes refered to as Upper Stoke. It was an appendage to the Manor of Great Hoo, it contains some Norman and Early English work dating from 1175. It has no spire.[1]
In Saxon Days the manor was called Andescohesham, the Domesday Book called it Estoches and Soches. It was passed with other lands by Eadberht, son of King Wihtred of Kent to the See of Rochester for "the good of his soul and the remission of sins".[1]
Due to its low lying nature, Stoke has often suffered flooding, 1158, 1235, 1309, 1682, 1735 when ploughmen were swept from their fields as the sea broke through, 1791, 1854, 1874,1897 when Stoke was cut off from Isle of Grain for a week, in 1953 and lastly in 1968.[1]
In 1720 Manor Farm was leased to Jacob Sawbridge one of the South Sea Bubble directors.[1]
In 1732 Hogarth overnighted at the 'Nag's Head' in Lower Stoke, and described the night, as due to the shortage of beds two of the three had to share one bed.[1]
There was a large airship base nearby at Kingsnorth whence patrols went out covering the North Sea during World War I. It now lies beneath Kingsnorth Power Station.
The Rose and Crown pub in Stoke Road is a Grade II building. It started life as a Georgian house in the late 18th century but has 20th century additions and alterations.
In the late 20th century the Ramsgate Flat Earth Society held council at Stoke and formed the North Kent Parochial Anarchists. This was announced on the parish and village notice board, opposite what now represents the village centre, and by public proclamation on the village green in 1984.
- ^ a b c d e Brian Matthews, the History of Strood Rural District, 1971, Strood Rural District Council
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The unitary authority of Medway in Kent, South East England with its suburbs, villages, towns and parishes: |
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Allhallows • Borstal • Brompton • Chatham • Chattenden • Cliffe • Cliffe and Cliffe Woods • Cliffe Woods • Cooling • Cuxton • Frindsbury • Frindsbury Extra • Frindsbury Intra • Gillingham • Halling • Hempstead • High Halstow • Hoo St Werburgh • Isle of Grain • Lordswood • Lower Rainham • Luton • Park Wood • Rochester • Rainham • Rainham Mark • St Mary Hoo • St Mary's Island • Stoke • Strood • Twydall • Upchurch • Upnor • Wainscott • Walderslade • Wigmore • Wouldham |
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