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“STOCKWOOD, (or Stoke), a parish in the liberty of Sutton Poyntz, Dorchester division of county Dorset, 8 miles S.W. of Sherborne, its post town, and 8½ S.E. of Yeovil. The parish, which is inconsiderable, is situated near Melbury Park, and is chiefly agricultural. There is no village, only a few farmhouses. The surface is generally level, but surrounded with hills. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Sarum, value £160. The church is dedicated to St. Edwald.
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from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
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- Michael Day provides photographs and bibliography for Stockwood (St. Edwold) on his Dorset Churches website
- A description of Stockwood from the Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5 is available on the UK Genealogy Archives site
The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"STOCKWOOD, (or Stoke), a parish in the liberty of Sutton Poyntz, Dorchester division of county Dorset, 8 miles S.W. of Sherborne, its post town, and 8½ S.E. of Yeovil. The parish, which is inconsiderable, is situated near Melbury Park, and is chiefly agricultural. There is no village, only a few farmhouses. The surface is generally level, but surrounded with hills. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Sarum, value £160. The church is dedicated to St. Edwald.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Stockwood to another place.
- The Dorset On-line Parish Clerks scheme (OPC) transcribe records relating to the county.
The Stockwood pages contain many useful resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference ST588070 (Lat/Lon: 50.860631, -2.586679), Stockwood which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.