STOKE (SOUTH), a parish in the hundred of DONCHESTER,
county of OXFORD, 4 miles (S. by W.) from
Wallingford, containing, with the chapelry of Woodcote,
739 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, rated in
the king's books at £12. 16. 0., endowed with £600
private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Dean and
Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The church is dedicated
to St. Andrew. There is a place of worship for
Independents. Ten poor children are taught for £ 14.7.8.
a year, arising from a bequest by the Rev. Griffith
Higgs,D.D., in 1659.