Place:Stoke Damerel, Devon, England

NameStoke Damerel
Alt namesStoke
Stoke-Damerelsource: the hyphen brigade
Coordinates50.3748°N 4.1623°W
Located inDevon, England
Devonport, Devon, Englandmunicipal borough into which it was absorbed in 1823
Plymouth, Devon, Englandcounty borough then city which absorbed Devonport in 1914
source: Family History Library Catalog

Stoke Damerel was one of the ancient parishes of Devon. The village, named Stoke, was a little way inland, but the parish included stretches of the coast west of Plymouth. The town of "Plymouth Dock" grew up in the parish around dockyards established at the start of the 18th century. Plymouth Dock was renamed Devonport in 1823. Devonport was constituted a Municipal Borough in 1837, with the Borough covering the whole of Stoke Damerel parish. Stoke Damerel parish was formally abolished in 1888, just before Devonport Municipal Borough was made a County Borough in 1889.

Devonport County Borough was in turn abolished in 1914, becoming part of Plymouth County Borough. Plymouth was made a city in 1928.

The former village of Stoke is now surrounded by suburban development.

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Stoke, also referred to by its earlier name of Stoke Damerel, is a parish, that was once part of the historical Devonport; this was prior to 1914. In 1914, Devonport and Plymouth amalgamated along with East Stonehouse; the new town took the name of Plymouth. Since the amalgamation Stoke has been an inner suburb of Plymouth in the English county of Devon.

Stoke is now densely built up with family houses and bisected by the main railway line from Paddington Station in London to Penzance. The parish church is notable not only for its evolving architecture, but also its contents and historical connections. The area has been prosperous for several hundred years, and there are some distinguished private houses dating to Georgian and Victorian times.

Registration Districts

and then, after mergers, covering the same geographical area,

Further information on Plymouth's registration district is missing from source notes (Brett Langston's List of Devon Registration Districts, see below)

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