Stoke Fleming

{{Infobox UK place

| official_name= Stoke Fleming

| civil_parish = Stoke Fleming

| country= England

| region= South West England

|coordinates = {{Coord|50|19|N|3|36|W|display=title|region:GB_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki}}

| os_grid_reference=

| post_town= DARTMOUTH

| postcode_area= TQ

| postcode_district= TQ6

| dial_code= 01803

| constituency_westminster =

| shire_district= South Hams

| shire_county= Devon

| hide_services= Yes

| population =803

| population_ref = (2011 census)

| area_total_km2=

|static_image=St Peter's Church, Stoke Fleming - geograph.org.uk - 192196.jpg

|static_image_caption=St Peter's Church, Stoke Fleming

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Stoke Fleming is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district of Devon, England. It lies on the A379 road about one and a half miles south of the town of Dartmouth, at the north end of Start Bay and within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.{{cite web

|url=http://www.stokefleming.org.uk/

|title=Parish of Stoke Fleming

|publisher=Stoke Fleming Parish Council

|access-date=4 November 2011}} In 2001 the parish had a population of 1,012, compared to 708 in 1901,{{Cite book

| last = Harris| first = Helen

| title = A Handbook of Devon Parishes

| publisher = Halsgrove| location = Tiverton| year = 2004

| page = 160| isbn = 1-84114-314-6

}} reducing again to 803 at the 2011 census{{cite web|url=http://www.citypopulation.de/php/uk-england-southwestengland.php?cityid=E34002145|title=Parish population 2011|access-date= 20 February 2011}} The parish is a major part of the Skerries electoral ward. The ward's total population at the same census was 1,927.{{cite web|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/skerries-e05003580#sthash.5dGj1R6s.dpbs|title=Skerries ward 2011|access-date= 20 February 2015}} Stoke Fleming a primary school, library{{cite web |url=http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/culturetourism/libraries/yourlocallibrary/south_hams_libraries/stoke_fleming_library.htm |title=Stoke Fleming Library |website=www.devon.gov.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080621040833/http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/culturetourism/libraries/yourlocallibrary/south_hams_libraries/stoke_fleming_library.htm |archive-date=2008-06-21}} and a football club.{{cn|date=January 2025}}

History

The village is of ancient foundation, being recorded in the Domesday Book as Stoc, and the personal name le Flemeng is first recorded in connection with the village in 1218.{{Cite journal

| author = Gover, J.E.B., Mawer, A. & Stenton, F.M

| journal = English Place-Name Society. Vol Viii. Part I.

| title = The Place-Names of Devon| publisher = Cambridge University Press

| year = 1931| page = 331}}

The parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter, it was recorded as having a rector in 1272, was enlarged during the 14th century and was subject to a major restoration in 1871–2.

Earmund of Stoke Fleming a saint of Anglo-Saxon England, reputed to be buried here, was the local patron saintNicholas Orme, English Church Dedications: With a Survey of Cornwall and Devon (University of Exeter Press, 1996) [https://books.google.com/books?id=yON3x64MR34C&dq=Earmund+of+Stoke+Fleming&pg=PA24 Page 24] of the village, being recorded as venerated in 1364ADEcclesia Sancti Ermondi 1364 (PRO, C135/183 no3. and 1419AD.Ecclesia Sancti Ermundi 1419 (Chanter IX f202)

George Parker Bidder, once known as "the Calculating Boy", is buried in its graveyard.{{ODNBweb|id=2360|title=Bidder, George Parker}} It was historically part of the Coleridge hundred.{{cite web |url=http://www.devon.gov.uk/historicstokefleming |title=Stoke Fleming |website=www.devon.gov.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009193136/http://www.devon.gov.uk/historicstokefleming |archive-date=2011-10-09}}

References

External links

Category:Villages in South Hams