STOKE-LANE, or STOKE (ST-MICHAEL), a parish in the hundred of WHITESTONE, county of SOMERSET, 4 miles (N. E.) from Shepton-Mallet, containing 1000 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Doulting, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. There is a of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.