Description
Stoke, a parish, with a village, in Kent, on the Medway estuary, 3 miles from Shamal Street station on the S.E.R. It has a post office under Rochester. Acreage, 3070; population, 675. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester; gross value, £180. The church is of the time of Edward I. There are Bible Christian and Roman Catholic chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
