Description
Noke (formerly called Noake, Oke, or Ake), a parish with a village in Oxfordshire, on the river Ray, 1 1/2 mile SE of Islip station on the Oxford and Bletchley branch of the L. & N.W.R., and 5 miles NNE of Oxford. Post town, Oxford; money order and telegraph office, Islip. Acreage, 860; population, 100. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £84 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, consists of nave and chancel with small bell turret, and contains a brass of 1598.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
