Stoke Wake
{{Short description|Hamlet in Dorset, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox UK place
|country= England
|coordinates = {{coord|50.8571|-2.3374|display=inline,title}}
|official_name= Stoke Wake
|static_image_name= All Saints, Stoke Wake.JPG
|static_image_caption= All Saints, Stoke Wake
|label_position=
|population = 60
|civil_parish= Stoke Wake
|unitary_england= Dorset
|lieutenancy_england= Dorset
|region= South West England
|constituency_westminster= North Dorset
|post_town= Blandford Forum
|postcode_area= DT
|postcode_district= DT11
|dial_code=
|os_grid_reference= ST764063
}}
Stoke Wake is a hamlet[http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/place?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=stoke+wake+dorset&fb=1&gl=uk&ftid=0x48724dcdf06485a9:0xfcd3342c51bedb2e&ei=RO74S6OVHYmM0gSlzvXpBw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ8gEwAA Google Map] and civil parish, formerly part of the Whiteway hundred in north Dorset, England. It is situated under Bulbarrow Hill on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, west of Blandford Forum. Dorset County Council{{'}}s 2013 mid-year estimate of the parish population is 60.
In 1086 Stoke Wake was recorded in the Domesday Book as Stoche;{{cite web |url=http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/dorset3.html |title=Dorset S-Z | work=The Domesday Book Online |publisher=domesdaybook.co.uk |accessdate=6 February 2015}} it had 15 households, 4 ploughlands, {{convert|15|acre|ha|0|abbr=off}} of meadow and one mill. It was in the hundred of Hilton and the lord and tenant-in-chief was Shaftesbury Abbey.{{cite web |url=http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/ST7606/stoke-wake/ |title=Place: Stoke [Wake] |publisher=domesdaymap.co.uk |work=Open Domesday |accessdate=6 February 2015}}
The parish church was built in 1872.{{cite book|title=North Dorset District Official Guide|author=North Dorset District Council|year=c. 1983|page=47|publisher=Home Publishing Co. Ltd}}