STOKE (ST-GREGORY), a parish in the hundred
of NORTH-CURRY, county of SOMERSET, 5 miles
(W. by N.) from Langport, containing, with the tythings
of Higher, Middle, Morland, and Stath divisions, 1369
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed
to the vicarage of North Curry, in the peculiar jurisdiction
of the Dean and Chapter of Wells. The parish
is bounded on the north-east by the navigable river
Parret, and on the north-west by the Tone, which lat-'
ter is crossed by three bridges, one of them forming
a connexion with the Isle of Athelney, famous as the
retreat of the renowned Alfred.