When South Stoke’s 11th century Saxon flint church was recorded in the Domesday Book this very rural village was known as ‘Stoches’. South Stoke’s pretty church contains a bell dated 1657 and the porch is 13th century.
You can walk all along the west bank of the river Arun from Arundel to South Stoke, which lies two miles north of Arundel. If you walk on the east river bank, you will reach North Stoke.