STOKE (EAST), a parish in the hundred of WINFRITH, Blandford (South) division of the county of DORSET, 4 miles (W. by S.) from Wareham, containing, with the tything of Worgret, 519 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £ 14.12.11., and in the patronage of Sir W. Oglander, Bart. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.