STOKE RIVERS

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)]

"STOKE RIVERS, a parish in the hundred of Sherwill, county Devon, 5 miles N.E. of Barnstaple, its post town. The village is situated on an acclivity, and is wholly agricultural. The subsoil consists of rubble. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Exeter, value £231. The church, dedicated to the Holy Ascension, or to St. Bartholomew, has a tower and five bells. It was rebuilt in 1831, with the exception of the tower. There is a free school for both sexes, which is endowed with £200 by A. Tamlyn, Esq. Sir A. Chichester, Bart., is lord of the manor. There is a circular encampment called Burah Castle, also the supposed site of one of the ancient British towns."