East Stoke is a village in the

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county of

Dorset Dorset ( ; Archaism, archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, t ...

. It lies three miles west of the small town of Wareham and two miles east of

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. In 2013 the estimated population of the civil parish was 410. The

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runs a research centre on the banks of the River Frome, from which the

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runs its research into

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declines.

References

External links

FBA East Stoke

Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust research on the River Frome
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