STOKE (SEVERN), a parish in the lower division
of the hundred of PERSHORE, county of WORCESTER,
3 miles (N. by E.) from Upton upon Severn, containing
666 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's
books at £21.17. 4., and in the patronage of the Earl
of Coventry. The church is dedicated to St. Denis. A
market and a fair were granted to be held here by
Edward II., but both of them have been long since
disused.