STOKE-HAMMOND, a parish in the hundred of
NEWPORT, county of BUCKINGHAM, 2 miles (S.) from
Fenny-Stratford, containing 320 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the lung's books at
£19. 9. 4., and in the patronage of the Bishop of
Lincoln. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There
is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. John
Hillersdon, in 1707, founded a free school, and endowed
it with land producing upwards of £ 11 per annum.