East Stoke | |
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Stokeford, East Stoke |
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East Stoke shown within Dorset | |
Population | 410 (2013 estimate) |
OS grid reference | SY872862 |
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Shire county | |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Postcode district | BH20 |
Police | Dorset |
Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire |
Ambulance | South Western |
EU Parliament | South West England |
East Stoke is a village in the English county of Dorset. It lies within the Purbeck administrative district, three miles west of the small town of Wareham and two miles east of Wool. In 2013 the estimated population of the civil parish was 410. The Freshwater Biological Association runs a research centre on the banks of the River Frome, from which the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust runs its research into atlantic salmon declines.