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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "STOKE HOLY CROSS":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  COVENTRY	Warwickshire	COVENTRY , a town, a district, and a quondam city-county, in Warwick. The town stands on the river Sherbourne, at	Imperial
  DEVIZES	Wiltshire	DEVIZES , a town, two parishes, a sub-district, and a district in Wilts. The town stands on an eminence, amid	Imperial
  DUBLIN	Dublin	DUBLIN , the metropolis of Ireland, and a city and county of itself, in the province of LEINSTER, situated in 53	Lewis:Ireland
  EXETER	Cornwall Devon	EXETER , a city and a district in Devon, and a diocese in Devon and Cornwall. The city stands on the	Imperial
  GRANTHAM	Lincolnshire	GRANTHAM , a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Lincolnshire. The town stands on Ermine-street, near	Imperial
  HENSTEAD	Norfolk	Stoke-Holy-Cross, Great Poringland, Little Poringland, Earl-Framingham, Framingham-Pigot, Caistor, Arminghall, Bixley, Kirby-Bedon, Bramerton, Holverstone, Rockland-St. Mary	Imperial
  IPSWICH	Suffolk	Stoke hamlet; another bridge is on the line of the road to Colchester; and a third crosses the Gipping to the marshes and Mary-Stoke. The masonic hall and masonic buildings, in Brook street, were erected in 1866; occupy a space of 102 feet in length; and comprise an entrancehall and vestibule, -robing, committee, and ante rooms, -a banqueting room, 40 feet by 20, -and a hall 45 feet long, 22½ wide, and 22½ high. The assembly rooms, for balls and concerts, are handsomely fitted up. The temperance hall can accommodate about 500 persons. The theatre was formed	Imperial
  LICHFIELD	Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Shropshire Staffordshire	LICHFIELD , a city, four parishes, a sub-district, and a district in Staffordshire, and a diocese partly also in Derbyshire	Imperial
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	LINCOLN , a city and a district in Lincolnshire, and a diocese partly also in Notts. The city stands on Ermine	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	Holy-Trinity-the-Less. The Greek church, in London Wall, is an edifice in the Byzantine style, in the form of a Greek cross; and contains some beautiful pictures. The Jews' great synagogue is in St. James-place, Aldgate; and the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' synagogue is in Bevis-marks, Leadenhall-street. A Jews' synagogue in Great Portland-street was built in 1869-70, at a cost of about £24,000. The burying-places throughout the City and in all other parts of the metropolis, till the comparatively recent enactment for ultramural interment, were the churches and the churchyards	Imperial
  Lower Stoke	Norfolk	Lower Stoke , vil., Stoke Holy Cross par., Norfolk, 6 miles S. of Norwich.	Bartholomew
  Stoke Holy Cross	Norfolk	Stoke Holy Cross , par. and vil., Norfolk - par., 1659 ac., pop. 414; vil., 5 miles S. of Norwich; P.O.; near	Bartholomew
  SWAINSTHORPE	Norfolk	Stoke Holy Cross, under Norwich. Acres, 821. Real property, £1,589. Pop. in 1861, 338; of whom 91 were	Imperial
  TOTTENHAM	Middlesex	Stoke-Newington, on the N with Edmonton; contains a large portion of Alexandra park; is divided politically into the wards of High-Cross, Lower, Middle, and Wood-Green; is cut ecclesiastically into the sections of All Saints, Holy	Imperial
  WAREHAM	Dorset	Stoke, and Morden; is a seat of sessions and county courts and a polling place; presents nearly the form of a parallelogram, with streets crossing at right angles; retains three sides of an ancient vallum, from 1,600 to 1,960 feet long, and about 30 feet high; includes vacant spaces between its present houses and the vallum's E side, now disposed in gardens, but formerly occupied by streets; and has a head post-office,‡ a r. station with telegraph, two banking offices, two chief inns, a town hall, a five-arched bridge of 1779 over the Frome	Imperial
  WATERFORD	Waterford	WATERFORD , a seaport, city and county of itself, and the seat of a diocese, locally in the county of WATERFORD	Lewis:Ireland
  WINCHESTER	Hampshire Surrey	WINCHESTER , a city, a district, and a division in Hants, and a diocese comprehending all Hants, most of Surrey, and	Imperial
  YORK	Yorkshire	YORK , a city, a district, an ainsty, and a diocese, in Yorkshire. The city stands on Watling-street, on the	Imperial

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