Description
Stoke Ash, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 3 miles SW from Eye terminal station on the G.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Eye. Acreage, 1215; population, 228. Stoke Hall manor belongs to Lord Henniker, and Woodhall manor belongs to the Turner family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value£300 with residence. The church, which was thoroughly restored in 1868, is a Norman building of flint and stone, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and a square embattled western tower. There is a Baptist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
