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52°32′N3°04′W / 52.53°N 03.06°W / 52.53; -03.06 Coordinates: 52°32′N3°04′W / 52.53°N 03.06°W / 52.53; -03.06

Old Church Stoke is a village in the Community of Churchstoke in Powys, Wales. Until 1974 it was in the county of Montgomeryshire.

The name, as a distinct settlement within the township and parish of Churchstoke, was first recorded in the mid-16th century. [1] The current village includes several timber-framed farmhouses of the 17th and 18th century, the former Oak Inn from the same period, and a 19th-century Methodist chapel. [1]

There was formerly a holy well, or "Lady well", in the village, which was dressed with flowers and rushes. [2]

There are several farms located in Old churchstoke, one being Upper Aldress, farmed by Robert Kinsey and his family

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References

  1. 1 2 Churchstoke Historic Landscape Characterisation, Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust
  2. Bird, A. History on the ground: an inventory of unrecorded material relating to the mid-Anglo-Welsh borderland, University of Wales Press, 1977, p.90