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Stoke, North

STOKE, NORTH, a parish, in the hundred of Poling, rape of Arundel, W. division of Sussex, 5 miles (N. by E.) from Arundel; containing 89 inhabitants. The parish comprises 930 acres, of which 482 are arable and woodland, 281 meadow, and the remainder down: the river Arun separates it from South Stoke. The living is a perpetual curacy, valued in the king's books at £5. 14. 4½.; net income, £57; patron and impropriator, Colonel Wyndham. The church is a cruciform structure in the later English style. A canoe or ancient vessel was found in 1834, under an old drain lying in the course of an arm or tributary of the Arun, and was presented by the Earl of Egremont to the British Museum; it is 35 feet 4 inches in length, nearly 2 feet in depth, and between 4 and 5 in breadth. There are several barrows on the downs.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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