Place:Winchester Soke, Hampshire, England

Wikipedia has an article describing and defining a soke and its use in English administration. (In short, "soke" denoted the right to hold a court and/or only the right to receive the fines and forfeitures of the men over whom it was granted when they had been condemned in a court of competent jurisdiction. The term soke sometimes applied to the district over which the right of jurisdiction extended.) Winchester Soke is not included among Wikipedia's examples.

To place Winchester Soke within the county, see The Hundreds of Hampshire, a map from HMSO Boundary Commissioners, dated 1832, provided by A Vision of Britain through Time; or this map on Wikimedia Commons.

Winchester Soke covers the ancient ecclesiastical parishes of the City of Winchester, together with a couple of parishes outside the original city itself. The Soke and its individual parishes are covered in Volume 5 of the Victoria County History for Hampshire

List of Parishes