Purton Stoke
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 Purton Stoke House |
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| Purton Stoke shown within Wiltshire | |
| OS grid reference | SU092906 |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Swindon |
| Postcode district | SN5 |
| Dialling code | 01793 |
| Police | Wiltshire |
| Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
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| Website | Village |
Purton Stoke is a small village in north Wiltshire, England, within the civil parish of Purton. The village is located along a side road off the Purton to Cricklade road, approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Purton village. A small country lane gives access to the nearby hamlet of Bentham, to the southwest.
The River Key, a small tributary of the Thames, passes close to the west of the village.
Pond Farmhouse, south of the village, is from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries and is on an earlier moated site. The house is Grade II* listed.
Purton Stoke has a Methodist chapel. The current building opened in 1868, complete with outbuildings for stabling visitors' horses. There was a Quaker Meeting House in the village during the late 17th century and early 18th century. The village also has a public house by the name of the Bell, which is a property of the Arkell's Brewery. The village post office has closed.
Until relatively recently, Purton Stoke had its own primary school. It opened in 1894 and at its peak had 100 pupils. However, numbers dropped continually from the 1930s when older pupils were educated in Purton, until there were only around 30 pupils left in the 1970s. The school closed in 1978. The building is now used for the Jubilee Gardens Project and is situated on the Purton to Cricklade road.
The Wiltshire Wildlife Trust nature reserve, Stoke Common Meadows, can be found in the vicinity. Situated at the end of Stoke Common Lane (grid reference SU 070 904), the meadows consist of a small wood and grasslands, with ancient hedgerows and ditches. Wildlife found here includes mainly wildflowers: Pepper-saxifrage, sweet vernal-grass, heath spotted-orchid, adder’s-tongue fern (Ophioglossum), bugle, ox-eye daisy and common knapweed. Some of the fields are designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
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