:Old Church Stoke
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| static_image_caption = View of the hamlet of Old Church Stoke
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| official_name = Old Church Stoke
| community_wales = Churchstoke
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| unitary_wales = Powys
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Old Church Stoke is a village in the community of Churchstoke in Powys, Wales. Until 1974 it was in the county of Montgomeryshire.
The name, as a distinct settlement within the township and parish of Churchstoke, was first recorded in the mid-16th century.[http://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/histland/montgom/1069.htm Churchstoke Historic Landscape Characterisation], Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust The current village includes several timber-framed farmhouses of the 17th and 18th century, the former Oak Inn from the same period, and a 19th-century Methodist chapel.
There was formerly a holy well, or "Lady well", in the village, which was dressed with flowers and rushes.Bird, A. History on the ground: an inventory of unrecorded material relating to the mid-Anglo-Welsh borderland, University of Wales Press, 1977, p.90
There are several farms located in Old churchstoke, one being Upper Aldress, farmed by Robert Kinsey and his family
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External links
- [https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=5974070 Photos of Old Church Stoke and surrounding area on geograph]
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