North Stoke, Sussex
Historical Description
Stoke, North, a parish in Sussex, on the river Arun, 3½ miles N of Arundel, and 1 mile from Amberley station on the L.B. & S.C.R. Post town, Arundel. Acreage, 941; population, 100. The Duke of Norfolk is lord of the manor. An ancient British canoe 34½ feet long was found in 1834, and is now in the British Museum. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £50. Patron, Lord Leconfield. The church is cruciform.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Sussex | |
| Hundred | Poling |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for North Stoke from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stoke, North)
Maps
Online maps of North Stoke are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Sussex newspapers online: