- Old Church Stoke
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Coordinates: 52°32′N 3°04′W / 52.53°N 3.06°W
Old Church Stoke 
View of the hamlet of Old Church Stoke
Old Church Stoke
Old Church Stoke shown within PowysOS grid reference SO2894 Community Churchstoke Principal area Powys Country Wales Sovereign state United Kingdom Police Dyfed-Powys Fire Mid and West Wales Ambulance Welsh EU Parliament Wales List of places: UK • Wales • Powys 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.[1] 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 Primitive Methodist chapel.[1]
There was formerly a holy well, or "Lady well", in the village, which was dressed with flowers and rushes.[2]
References
- ^ a b Churchstoke Historic Landscape Characterisation, Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust
- ^ 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
External links
Categories:- Villages in Powys
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