STOKE, a parish, with a village, in Hoo district, Kent; on the Medway estuary, 7 miles NE of Strood r. station. It has a post-office under Rochester. Acres, 3,999; of which 435 are water. Real property, £5,056. Pop., 557. Houses, 118. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £180.* Patron, J. Pearson, Esq-The church is of the time of Edward I. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels.

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