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 |
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- Type: Locality with 1,080 residents
- Description: civil parish on the Hoo Peninsula in Kent, England
- Also known as: “Stoke, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Peter and St Paul and Damhead Creek power station.
Damhead Creek power station
Power station
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Damhead Creek power station is a 792 MWe gas-fired power station in Kent, England, on the Hoo Peninsula, It is near the site of the decommissioned Kingsnorth power station. The plant entered service in February 2001. Damhead Creek power station is situated 1½ miles southwest 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 2½ 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
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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
- Category: civil parish
- Location: Stoke, Medway, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Stoke” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Stoke (distrito sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Medway)”
- Cebuano: “Stoke”
- Dutch: “Stoke”
- French: “Stoke”
- Irish: “Stoke”
- Japanese: “ストーク”
- Polish: “Stoke”
- Swedish: “Stoke, Kent”
- Swedish: “Stoke”
- Turkish: “Stoke, Kent”
- Welsh: “Stoke, Caint”
- Welsh: “Stoke”
- “Stoke”
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