Stoke St Michael is a Somerset village 4 miles from Shepton Mallet and 8 miles from Frome and Wells. There are around 400 dwellings in the village. The wider parish includes the hamlets of Midway, Three Ashes, East End, Stoke Bottom, Withybrook and Fosse Road. It is set in the characteristic East Mendip landscape of farmland and pastures, streams and swallets, wooded valleys, quarries and caves.