Stoke-Abbott

Stoke Abbott is a village in west Dorset, England, two miles west of Beaminster. The village has a population of 209 (As of 2001), with 14.5% of dwellings being second homes. The late Ralph Wightman, agriculturist, broadcaster and native of Dorset, described the village as "a beautiful place of deep lanes, orchards and old houses, with a church of quiet charm", and, in a similar vein, Sir Frederick Treves in 1905 considered it "as pretty a village as any in Dorset". The Very Rev Hedley Robert Burrows (1887 - 1983), who later became Archdeacon of Winchester and then Dean of Hereford, was incumbent at Stoke Abbott for a time.