| Main | Births etc |
|---|
| Stoke | |
 Stoke Stoke shown within Devon | |
| District | Plymouth |
|---|---|
| Shire county | Devon |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | PLYMOUTH |
| Postcode district | PL3 4xx |
| Dialling code | 01752 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Devon and Somerset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| List of places: UK • England • Devon | |
Stoke, also referred to by its earlier name of Stoke Damerel, is a parish, that was once part of the historical Devonport, England; this was prior to 1914. In 1914, Devonport and Plymouth amalgamated with Stonehouse: the new town took the name of Plymouth. Since the amalgamation Stoke has been an inner suburb of Plymouth in the English county of Devon.
Stoke is now densely built up with family houses and bisected by the main railway line from Paddington to Penzance. The parish church is notable not only for its evolving architecture, but also its contents and historical connections. The area has been prosperous for several hundred years, and there are some distinguished private houses dating to Georgian and Victorian times (several of which feature in Nikolaus Pevsner's South Devon: Penguin Books, 1952, content (revised and enlarged) issued New Haven: Yale U. P. 1989. ISBN 0-300-09596-1).
Stoke Damerel Primary School educates approximately 320 pupils of ages 4-11.[1]
Notable people[]
- Rev John Hawker
- John Scott - Robert Falcon Scott's father
- Thomas B. Jeffery, born in Stoke, Devon
References[]
- "GENUKI account of Stoke Damerel". http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/StokeDamerel/. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
 |
This Devon location article is a stub. You can help by expanding it. |
| This page uses content from the English language Wikipedia. The original content was at Stoke, Plymouth. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with this Familypedia wiki, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons License. |