Stoke (Māori: Omaio) is a suburb of Nelson in New Zealand, located between Richmond and Tāhunanui.
Stoke was named by William Songer, the personal servant of Arthur Wakefield, after his birthplace Stoke-by-Nayland in Suffolk.
[4] A group of streets in Stoke, between Main Road Stoke and Nayland Road, are named after famous literary figures: Kipling, Tennyson, Keats, Shelley, Marlowe, Browning, Dickens, Homer and Coleridge.
It includes the Isel Park research facility which is part of the Nelson Provincial Museum.
Before the 2023 census, Stoke had a smaller boundary, covering 22.25 km2 (8.59 sq mi).