STOKE-DAMERALL, a parish in the hundred of ROBOROUGH, county of DEVON, adjoining the borough of Plymouth, containing 33,578 inhabitants. This parish, which includes Devonport and Morice Town, is one of the most extensive in the county: the village occupies an elevated site, and comprises several rows of excellent houses, a crescent, and some private mansions of more than ordinary beauty. Among the important public structures are, the immense reservoir of the Devonport Water Company, which supplies the government establishments and the neighbourhood in general; the military hospital, a spacious edifice of grey marble, erected in 1797, on the west side of Stonehouse creek, comprising four large square buildings, of similar size and form, connected by a piazza, of forty-one arches; and the Blockhouse, occupying an eminence north of the village, surrounded by a fosse and drawbridge, commanding a most magnificent prospect: in addition to the military use of this fortress, it forms an admirable land-mark for ships entering the Sound. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Totness, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £18. 18. 9., and in the patronage of Sir John St. Aubyn, Bart. The church is a spacious edifice, with a low square tower. A new church is in progress of erection by His Majesty's commissioners. There are places of worship for Independents, and Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists. On the eastern bank of the Hamoaze, in this parish, is Morice Town, so named from the former lord of the manor, now commonly called the New Passage, where a ferry was established in 1800, to communicate with Cornwall, at Torpoint, on the opposite shore; it consists of four principal streets. The sides of the harbour are lined with various wharfs, and in the town is a large establishment, called the Tamar Brewery. At a short distance is the powder magazine, which, although it covers an area of five acres, was insufficient in time of war, when line-of-battle ships were fitted up as floating magazines. A fair is held here on Whit-Monday. In the vicinity, at Cross hill, is a very extensive quarry of slate of a durable quality.