STOKE (NORTH), a parish in the hundred of
BATH-FORUM, county of SOMERSET, 4 miles (N. W.)
from Bath, containing 129 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Bath, and
diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books
at & 5. 7. 6., and in the patronage of the Crown. The
church is dedicated to St. Martin. The parish is
bounded on the west by the river Avon, the ground
gradually rising from that river to the heights of
Lansdown, which gives the title of marquis to the
family of Petty.