STOKE-CANON, a parish, with a village, in St. Thomas district, Devon; on the Bristoland Exeter railway, near the confluence of the rivers Exe and Culm, 4½ miles NNE of Exeter. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Exeter. Acres, 1,217. Real property, £2,670. Pop., 452. Houses, 88. The manor was given, by King Athelstan, to Exeter cathedral; and the greater part of the land still belongs to the Dean and Chapter. The parsonage and 23 other houses were destroyed in 1847, by means of a cinder blown from a passing railway engine. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £180.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Exeter. The church is of the 13th century, and good. There is a parochial school.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))