Place:Stoke Bliss, Herefordshire, England

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Stoke Bliss is a village, and together with the villages of Kyre and Bockleton, is now a civil parish in the Malvern Hills District in the county of Worcestershire, England.

The above description is of Stoke Bliss in the 21st century, after the Hereford and Worcester period. Below is a description from 1870 when parishes covering land on both sides of a county border were not unusual. One of the regulations of the Local Government Act 1894 was the prohibition of parishes having land in two counties. Because of this regulation the parish of Stoke Bliss finally absorbed Little Kyre (which was in Worcestershire) in 1933. Source: (A Vision of Britain through Time)

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Stoke Bliss from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"STOKE-BLISS, a parish in Tenbury [registration] district; comprising 1,148 acres in Herefordshire, and Little Kyre hamlet of 930 acres in Worcestershire; and lying 5½ miles SE of Tenbury [railway] station. Post town: Tenbury. Rated property: £2,179. Population: 298. Houses: 70. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value: £374. Patron: the Lord Chancellor. The church is tolerable. Charities, £21."