English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Stoke

Parish in the County of Cheshire

Etymology

The ecclesiastical parish of Stoke contained the townships 1. Little Stanney, 2. Stoke, 3. part of Whitby (cf. 198infra ). Part of Ince 3251 in Eddisbury Hundred, was in Stoke parish, v. Holme Ho 3251.

Major Settlements