Stoke Wake
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Stoke Wake is a very small hamlet
, originally part of the Whiteway hundred
in north Dorset
, England
, situated in the Blackmore Vale
under Bulbarrow Hill
west of Blandford Forum.
Hamlet
The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
, originally part of the Whiteway hundred
Whiteway (hundred)
Whiteway Hundred was a hundred in the English county of Dorset, containing the following parishes:*Cheselbourne*Hilton*Ibberton*Melcombe Horsey*Milton Abbas*Stoke Wake*Woolland...
in north Dorset
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, situated in the Blackmore Vale
Blackmore Vale
The Blackmore Vale is a vale, or wide valley, in north Dorset, and to a lesser extent south Somerset and southwest Wiltshire in southern England. The vale is part of the Stour valley...
under Bulbarrow Hill
Bulbarrow Hill
Bulbarrow Hill is a 274 metre hill near Woolland, five miles west of Blandford Forum and ten miles north of Dorchester in Dorset, England. The chalk hill is part of the scarp of Dorset Downs, which form the western end of the Southern England Chalk Formation. Part of the hill is used for arable...
west of Blandford Forum.