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Stoke Gabriel
Stoke Gabriel - the creek beyond the mill pond
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Population	1,107
OS grid reference	SX850572
District	South Hams
Shire county	Devon
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	TOTNES
Postcode district	TQ9
Dialling code	01803

Police	Devon and Cornwall
Fire	Devon and Somerset
Ambulance	South Western

UK Parliament	Totnes
List of places UK England Devon 50°24′12.2″N 3°37′16.3″W / 50.403389°N 3.621194°W / 50.403389; -3.621194

Stoke Gabriel is a village and parish in Devon, England, situated on a creek of the River Dart. The village is a popular tourist destination in the South Hams and is famous for its mill pond and crab fishing (known colloquially as crabbing). It is equidistant from Paignton, Dartmouth and Totnes, and has a population of approximately 1,200, reducing slightly to 1,107 at the 2011 census.^[1] The village is the major part of the electoral ward of East Dart. The ward population at the abovementioned census was 1,877.^[2]

Fisherman probably first came to Stoke Gabriel to fish salmon and gain access to the River Dart. The village has an approximately 1,000-year-old yew tree^[3] in the churchyard of The Church of St Mary and St Gabriel, a church which has stood since Norman times. Legend has it that if you walk backwards seven times round the yew's main stem you will be granted a wish.^[4]

The village has two public houses; The Church House Inn^[5] and The Castle Inn. Until relatively recently^[when?] there were three pubs. The other being The Victoria and Albert Inn. The Church House Inn was built to accommodate the masons who constructed the church and also served as the courthouse. The old stocks can be seen outside the inn today.

Stoke Gabriel is the template for the fictional village of Thornford Regis in C. C. Benison's crime novels Twelve Drummers Drumming and Eleven Pipers Piping.

Notable people

John Davis (ca.1550 – 1605), one of the chief navigators of Queen Elizabeth I.^[6]
George Jackson Churchward CBE (1857–1933), an English railway engineer and chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway, he lends his name to the local football club's ground - Stoke Gabriel & Torbay Police F.C.

References

^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 19 February 2015.
^ "East Dart ward 2011". Retrieved 19 February 2015.
^ "The Yew Tree". Stoke Gabriel Church. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
^ "The Parish Church of St Mary and St Gabriel". Retrieved 31 December 2016.
^ "Church House Inn". Stoke Gabriel Church. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
^ Beazley, Charles Raymond (1911). "Davis, John" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). pp. 868–869.

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v t e Non-metropolitan district of South Hams
List of civil parishes in Devon#South Hams
Civil parishes	Ashprington Aveton Gifford Berry Pomeroy Bickleigh Bigbury Blackawton Brixton Buckland-Tout-Saints Charleton Chivelstone Churchstow Cornwood Cornworthy Dartington Dartmouth Dean Prior Diptford Dittisham East Allington East Portlemouth Ermington Frogmore and Sherford Halwell and Moreleigh Harberton Harford Holbeton Holne Ivybridge Kingsbridge Kingston Kingswear Littlehempston Loddiswell Malborough Marldon Modbury Newton and Noss North Huish Rattery Ringmore Salcombe Shaugh Prior Slapton South Brent South Huish South Milton South Pool Sparkwell Staverton Stoke Fleming Stoke Gabriel Stokenham Strete Thurlestone Totnes Ugborough Wembury West Alvington West Buckfastleigh Woodleigh Yealmpton
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