STOKE-PRIOR, a parish in the middle division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, 1 mile (S.) from Bromsgrove, containing 900 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £ 12, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Worcester. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. The Birmingham and Worcester canal passes through the parish. -In the great civil war, the court-house was almost destroyed by the royalists.