Stoke Dry Leicestershire Family History Guide

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Stoke Dry is an Ancient Parish mostly in Rutland and partly in Leicestershire.

Other places in the parish include: Holyoakes and Holy Oakes.

Alternative names: Dry Stone

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1559
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1707

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STOKE-DRY, a parish in Uppingham district, comprising S.-D. township in Rutland, and Holy-Oakes liberty in Leicester; and lying 2½ miles N by W of Rockingham r. station. Post town, Uppingham. Acres, 1,800. Rated property, £2,492. Pop., 53. Houses, 9. The property belongs to the Marquis of Exeter. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £420. Patron, the Marquis of Exeter. The church is old but good.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Administration

  • County: Leicestershire
  • Civil Registration District: Uppingham
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Peterborough (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Peterborough
  • Rural Deanery: Rutland
  • Poor Law Union: Uppingham
  • Hundred: Gartree (Leicestershire)
  • Province: Canterbury