STOKE (SOUTH), a parish in the hundred of AVISFORD, rape of ARUNDELL, county of SUSSEX, 2 miles (N.N.B.) from Arundel, containing, with the tything of Offham, 115 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £11. 15. 10., and in the patronage of the Duke of Norfolk. The river Arun forms part of the boundary line of this parish.