South Stoke, Oxfordshire

Description
Stoke, South, a parish, with a village, and with Woodcote liberty, in Oxfordshire, on the river Thames and the G.W.R., 2 miles N from Goring station, and 4 S of Wallingford. It has a post and telegraph office under Reading; money order office. Goring. Acreage, 3370; population, 717. The limits include part of the Chiltern Hills. There is a parish council which meets alternately at South Stoke and Woodcote. The manor with most. of the land belongs to the Dean and Chapter of Christchurch, Oxford. The living is a vicarage, with Woodcote chapelry, in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £319 with residence. Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The church is a building of rubble and flint chiefly in the Late Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and an embattled western tower. The church at Woodcote was rebuilt in 1845-46, and is a building of flint in the Norman style.