Stoke Rivers is a small village five miles north-east of Barnstaple, in Devon, England. The village historically formed part of Shirwell Hundred and for ecclesiastical purposes falls within the Shirwell Deanery. "Historic Stoke Rivers, Devon County Council" (retrieved 15 October 2014) The parish of Stoke Rivers comprises the village itself as well as several scattered farmsteads. "Tour Devon" (retrieved 15 October 2014) There is also the medieval parish church of St. Batholomew and a small Baptist church.
The name derives from the Rivers family, who owned the village.genuki entry (retrieved 28 May 2010)'
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