Stockland: St Michael?s church
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Stockland: St Michael?s church
Image: © Martin Bodman Taken: 27 Aug 2006
The church dates from the 14th and 15th centuries. Stockland was a Dorset parish until transferred to Devon in 1844. In 1252 Henry III granted a fair for the village for ever ‘every year on the eve, day and morrow of the Assumption of Blessed Mary’. In 1447 the fair dates were changed to correspond to the feast of St Michael and again in 1512 to celebrate St Barnabas’s day. Inside the church, which stands at the southern end of the village, is a memorial to the men of the parish who lost their lives in combat in the two world wars: twenty in 1914-1918 and one man in 1939-1945. There are a number of yew trees in the churchyard. Looking north west
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Image Location
Latitude
50.835083
Longitude
-3.073944