Description
Stoke Trister, a parish in Somerset, 2 1/2 miles E of Wincanton station on the Somerset and Dorset railway. It contains Bayford hamlet, and has a post office under Bath; money order and telegraph office, Wincanton. Acreage, 1659; population, 414. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Bayford Lodge is the chief residence. The living is a rectory, annexed to Cucklington. The church is modern. There is a chapel at Bayford.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
