Stoke Canon is a small village and civil parish near the confluence of the rivers Exe and Culm on the main A396 between Exeter and Tiverton in the English county of Devon, and the district of East Devon. At the 2001 census it had a population of 660.
There is a pub, The Stoke Canon Inn, and a post office and general stores in the centre of the village.
Read more about Stoke Canon: The Church, History, The Bridge, The Railway
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