Stoke, North (St. Mary)

STOKE, NORTH (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Wallingford, hundred of Langtree, county of Oxford, 2 miles (S.) from Wallingford; containing 770 inhabitants, of whom 160 are in the tything of North Stoke. The tything comprises 800 acres by computation. The living is a vicarage, with that of Newnham-Murren annexed, valued in the king's books at £14. 10.; net income, £568; patrons and impropriators, the Master and Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge. There is a chapel of ease at Ipsden; and at Stoke-Row is a church dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, consecrated in Oct. 1846: the living is in the Vicar's gift.