Stoke Edith Station was built by the West Midland Railway Company, at the behest of Lady Emily Foley of the Stoke Edith Estate, in 1861.

					Lady Emily had given the ribbon of land that ran through the estate to the company, subject to certain terms and covenants..

					One of these was that a station (to be called Stoke Edith Station) would be built for her use, and that the train would be obliged to stop there on request whenever the Foleys or their guests wished to travel! This was done and the station remained in general use for over 100 years.

					The station's heyday was between the 1870's and the Edwardian era when trains would bring in farm machinery and supplies, teams of labourers during harvest time, and droves of hop pickers from Bristol, London and the Valleys who would spend their working holidays camped on the river banks.

					 And the trains would leave packed with sheep and cattle, wheat and barley, beans, timber and famously the world beating hops and apples which thrived and still thrive on the deep and rich alluvial soils around the river Frome.

					Doomed as soon as the roads were sealed with tarmac and more convenient bus and lorry transport arrived after the First World War, the station staggered on (largely now for passengers) into the 1960's before becoming one of the thousands of rural stations to fall under the axe of the Beeching Report and was finally closed in 1965.