•  Stoke Sub Hamdon, Somerset

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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Stoke Sub Hamdon like this:

STOKE-UNDER-HAMDON, a parish, with East Stoke and West Stoke villages, in Yeovil district, Somerset; 2 miles S by E of Martock r. station, and 5½ WNW of Yeovil. It has a post-office under Ilminster, and a fair on 23 April. Acres, 1,330. Real property, £4,676; of which £90 are in quarries. Pop., 1,395. Houses, 294. The manor belongs to the Duchy of Cornwall. Hamdon Hill, on the boundary, is separately noticed. Glove-making is carried on. Remains exist of Roman entrenchments. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £104. Patron, T. Hawkesworth, Esq. The church is in mixed architecture and cruciform. There are an Independent chapel and a Wesleyan chapel; and the former was built in 1866, and is in the decorated style, with tower and spire.

Stoke Sub Hamdon through time

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