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Stoke Pero

Stoke Pero proper noun: a locality on Exmoor in Luccombe parish, Somerset, England (OS grid ref SS8743).

Proper noun

Stoke Pero

  1. A locality on Exmoor in Luccombe parish, Somerset, England (OS grid ref SS8743).
    • There is a local rhyme which says:
      Culbone, Oare and Stoke Pero
      Are three such places as you seldom hear o'.
      Stoke Pero and Culbone are equally remote hamlets, respectively 5 miles south-east and 2½ miles east of Oare, a village of which few would have heard had not Blackmore [(R. D. Blackmore)]...1980, AA Book of English Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 302, about Oare

Questions about Stoke Pero

What does Stoke Pero mean?
Stoke Pero means a locality on Exmoor in Luccombe parish, Somerset, England (OS grid ref SS8743).
What part of speech is Stoke Pero?
Stoke Pero is a proper noun.

Words near Stoke Pero in the dictionary

  1. Stoke Lyne
  2. Stoke Mandeville
  3. Stoke Newington
  4. Stoke on Tern
  5. Stoke Orchard
  6. Stoke Pero
  7. Stoke Poges
  8. Stoke Prior
  9. Stoke Rochford
  10. Stoke St Gregory
  11. Stoke St Mary

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