In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Stokenham like this:
STOKENHAM, or Stokingham, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Kingsbridge district, Devon. The village stands 5 miles ESE of Kingsbridge, and 15 SSE of Kingsbridge-Road r. station; was once a market-town; and has a post-office under Kingsbridge. The parish contains also four other villages, two hamlets, and a coastguard station; and comprises 5,671 acres of land, and 340 of foreshore. ...
Rated property, £6,052. Pop., 1,566. Houses, 327. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage, united with Chivelstone and Sherford, in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £695.* Patron, the Crown. The church is later English. There are two dissenting chapels and a national school.—The district contains six parishes. Acres, 18,354. Pop., 3,877. Houses, 819.
Stokenham through time
Stokenham is now part of South Hams district. Click here for graphs and data of how South Hams has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Stokenham itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Stokenham, in South Hams and Devon | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4323
Date accessed: 07th November 2024
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