Stoke, Plymouth

Stoke, also referred to by its earlier name of Stoke Damerel, is an inner suburb of the city of Plymouth, Devon, England.

Stoke
Stoke Location within Devon
Population	13,861 (2011)[1]
OS grid reference	SX465552
District	Plymouth
Shire county	Devon
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	PLYMOUTH
Postcode district	PL3 4xx
Dialling code	01752
Police	Devon and Cornwall
Fire	Devon and Somerset
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	Plymouth Sutton and Devonport
List of places UK England Devon 50.377°N 4.161°W / 50.377; -4.161

In 1844, Stoke Damerel was described as a parish in Roborough hundred, adjoining the borough of Plymouth, and including Devonport within it.^[2] In 1914, Devonport and Plymouth amalgamated with Stonehouse, and the new town took the name of Plymouth.

Stoke is now densely built up with family houses and bisected by the main railway line from Paddington 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 distinguished private houses dating to Georgian and Victorian times, several of which feature in Nikolaus Pevsner's South Devon.

Stoke Damerel Primary School educates approximately 320 pupils of ages 4–11.^[3]

Devonport High School for Boys on Paradise Road draws pupils from all over the city and parts of south-west Devon and south-east Cornwall.

Notable people

• Mary Fergusson (1914–1997), British engineer, and the first female fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers
• Captain Tobias Furneaux (1735–1781), a Royal Navy officer and the first man to circumnavigate the globe in both directions
• Rev John Hawker
• John Scott, Robert Falcon Scott's father
• Thomas B. Jeffery, inventor, bicycle and vehicle manufacturer. Founder of the brand name "Rambler", see Rambler bicycles and Rambler cars.

References

1. "Plymouth ward 2011". Retrieved 5 April 2015.
2. "Stoke Damerel, Devon (quoting Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of England)". GENUKI. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
3. Ofsted. "Stoke Damerel Primary School".

• Pevsner, Nikolaus (1989) [1952]. South Devon. New Haven: Yale U. P. ISBN 0-300-09596-1.