Stoke
Stoke is a civil parish on the Hoo Peninsula in Kent, England, to the south of Allhallows, on the north of the Medway Estuary. The parish had a population of 1,060 at the 2011 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Peter and St Paul and Church of All Saints.
Church of All Saints
Church
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Church of All Saints is situated 1½ miles northeast of Stoke.
Slough Fort
Fort
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Slough Fort is a small artillery fort that was built at Allhallows-on-Sea in the north of the Hoo Peninsula in Kent. Constructed in 1867, the D-shaped fort was intended to guard a vulnerable stretch of the River Thames against possible enemy landings during a period of tension with France. Slough Fort is situated 2 miles northeast of Stoke.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hoo St Werburgh and Gillingham.
Hoo St Werburgh
Village
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Hoo St Werburgh, commonly known as Hoo, is a large village and civil parish in the Medway district of Kent, England. It is one of several villages on the Hoo Peninsula to bear the name Hoo, a Saxon word believed to mean "spur of land" or to refer to the "distinct heel-shape of the ridge of hills" through the settlement. Hoo St Werburgh is situated 3 miles southwest of Stoke.
Gillingham
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Gillingham is a town on the River Medway in the north of the English county of Kent. Together with its neighbouring towns of Rochester and Chatham it forms a large urban area known as the Medway Towns.
Brompton
Village
Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brompton is a suburban village situated between the town centres of Gillingham and Chatham, lying adjacent to Chatham Dockyard in Medway, Kent, England. Its name means "a farmstead where broom grows" — broom is a small yellow flowering shrub. Brompton is situated 5 miles southwest of Stoke.
Stoke
- Type: Village
- Also known as: “Upper Stoke”
- Category: locality
- Location: Stoke, Medway, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.44695° or 51° 26′ 49″ northLongitude
0.62248° or 0° 37′ 21″ eastElevation
62 feet (19 metres)Open location code
9F32CJWC+QXOpenStreetMap ID
node 27301111OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2636869
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