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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Stoke Abbott like this:
STOKE-ABBAS, or S.-Abbot, a parish, with a village, in Beaminster district, Dorset; 5 miles N of Bridport r. station. It has a post-office under Bridport. Acres, 2,303. Real property, £4,526. Pop. in 1851, 826; in 1861, 703,-of whom 96 were in the Beaminster workhouse. Houses, 137. The property is much sub-divided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £420.* Patron, New College, Oxford. There are a dissenting chapel and a national school.
Stoke Abbott is now part of DORSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how DORSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Stoke Abbott itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Stoke Abbott in Dorset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13937
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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