Old Church Stoke

Human settlement in Wales

Churchstoke

Powys

CountryWalesSovereign stateUnited KingdomPolice Dyfed-Powys Fire Mid and West Wales AmbulanceWelsh

List of places: UK; Wales; Powys

52°32′N 3°04′W / 52.53°N 03.06°W / 52.53; -03.06

Old Church Stoke is a village in the community of Churchstoke in Powys, Wales. Until 1974 it was in the county of Montgomeryshire.

The name, as a distinct settlement within the township and parish of Churchstoke, was first recorded in the mid-16th century.^[1] The current village includes several timber-framed farmhouses of the 17th and 18th century, the former Oak Inn from the same period, and a 19th-century Methodist chapel.^[1]

There was formerly a holy well, or "Lady well", in the village, which was dressed with flowers and rushes.^[2]

There are several farms located in Old churchstoke, one being Upper Aldress, farmed by Robert Kinsey and his family

References

^ ^a ^b Churchstoke Historic Landscape Characterisation, Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust
^ Bird, A. History on the ground: an inventory of unrecorded material relating to the mid-Anglo-Welsh borderland, University of Wales Press, 1977, p.90