The weather is beginning to stoke-up, as Boggley calls it, and during the day the tent is insufferable.

Close under the steep northern face of Hamdon is Stoke, with a quaint, and delightful inn known as the "Fleur de Lis," and a beautiful old church with a Norman tympanum, an elaborate chancel arch of the same date, and many other gracious and interesting details.

Stoke Wake village is just below and Mappowder is about two miles away by the fields, but much farther by road.

HILL, NORMAN L. The background of European governments. by Norman L. Hill & Harold W. Stoke.

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STOKE, MELIS.

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In Northamptonshire he had nine lordships; one of which, Stoke, acquired the additional name of Albini, when it came into the possession of his son."

Another pleasant walk can be taken in Hawkcombe valley (past W. end of church); whilst a third, passing "Doverhay," may terminate at the Horner Valley (L.), or at Stoke Pero (R.).

It is a large village at the foot of the Brendons, and preserves in its name the memory of its Norman lord, Stogumber being a corruption of Stoke Gomer (cp. Stogursey).

Stogursey or Stoke Courcy, a village 9 m. N.W. of Bridgwater.

In the village street is the base of an ancient cross; whilst a bell on some alms-houses, which rings at six every morning and evening, is said to date from the reign of Henry V. Stoke, East (or Stoke-sub-Hamdon), 1-1/2 m. W. from Montacute.

At the hamlet of West Stoke is Parsonage Farm, originally a chantry house, where should be noticed the Tudor gateway, the hall, a gabled room surmounted by a bell-cot, and a circular columbarium.

Stoke, North, a small village 5 m. N.W. of Bath (nearest stat.

Stoke Pero a parish on the edge of Exmoor, 3-1/2 m. S. of Porlock.

Stoke, Rodney, a village prettily situated at the foot of the Mendips, 5 m. N.W. from Wells (nearest stat.

Stoke St Gregory, a parish 2 m. S. of Athelney Station.

Stoke St Mary, a parish 2 m. E. of Thorne Falcon Station.

Stoke St Michael (or Stoke Lane), a compact but uninteresting village, 3 m. N. of Cranmore Station.

Stoke, South, a parish 2-1/2 m. S. of Bath.

Stoke Trister is a small hamlet of mean appearance, 2 m. E. of Wincanton.

Stoke St Gregory), (3) the W. door, made of one solid block of wood; over the entrance is the date 1500.

POTTERIES, THE, a district in North Staffordshire, 9 m. long by 3 broad, the centre of the earthenware manufacture of England; it includes Hanley, Burslem, Stoke-upon-Trent, &c. POT-WALLOPERS (i. e. Pot-boilers), a popular name given prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 to a class of electors in a borough who claimed the right to vote on the ground of boiling a pot within its limits for six months.