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Stoke Fleming
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Stoke Fleming
Location within Devon
Population803 (2011 census)
Civil parish
  • Stoke Fleming
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
List of places
UK
England
Devon
50°19′N3°36′W / 50.317°N 3.600°W / 50.317; -3.600

Stoke Fleming is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district of Devon, England. It lies on the A379 road about one and a half miles south of the town of Dartmouth, at the north end of Start Bay and within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. [1] In 2001 the parish had a population of 1,012, compared to 708 in 1901, [2] reducing again to 803 at the 2011 census [3] The parish is a major part of the Skerries electoral ward. The ward's total population at the same census was 1,927. [4] Stoke Fleming has a pub called The Green Dragon, [5] a primary school, library [6] and a football club. [7]

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History

The village is of ancient foundation, being recorded in the Domesday Book as Stoc, and the personal name le Flemeng is first recorded in connection with the village in 1218. [8]

The parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter, it was recorded as having a rector in 1272, was enlarged during the 14th century and was subject to a major restoration in 1871–2. [2]

Earmund of Stoke Fleming a saint of Anglo-Saxon England, reputed to be buried here, was the local patron saint [9] of the village, being recorded as venerated in 1364AD [10] and 1419AD. [11]

George Parker Bidder, once known as "the Calculating Boy", is buried in its graveyard. [12] It was historically part of the Coleridge hundred. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ "Parish of Stoke Fleming". Stoke Fleming Parish Council. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
  2. 1 2 Harris, Helen (2004). A Handbook of Devon Parishes. Tiverton: Halsgrove. p. 160. ISBN   1-84114-314-6.
  3. ↑ "Parish population 2011" . Retrieved 20 February 2011.
  4. ↑ "Skerries ward 2011" . Retrieved 20 February 2015.
  5. ↑ "Home". green-dragon-pub.co.uk.
  6. ↑ "Stoke Fleming Library". www.devon.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 21 June 2008.
  7. ↑ "Expired Website". stokeflemingfc.bravehost.com. Archived from the original on 16 May 2013.
  8. ↑ Gover, J.E.B., Mawer, A. & Stenton, F.M (1931). "The Place-Names of Devon". English Place-Name Society. Vol Viii. Part I. Cambridge University Press: 331.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ Nicholas Orme, English Church Dedications: With a Survey of Cornwall and Devon (University of Exeter Press, 1996) Page 24
  10. ↑ Ecclesia Sancti Ermondi 1364 (PRO, C135/183 no3.
  11. ↑ Ecclesia Sancti Ermundi 1419 (Chanter IX f202)
  12. ↑ "Bidder, George Parker". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2360.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  13. ↑ "Stoke Fleming". www.devon.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 9 October 2011.

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