STOKE-ABBAS, a parish in the hundred of BEAMINSTER-FORUM-and-REDHONE, Bridport division or the county of DORSET, 2 miles (W. by S.) from Beaminster, containing 615 inhabitants. The living, a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £9. 15., and in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows of New College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.