Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Stokeport 1154–89 Pat 1318 P 1188

• Stokeporta 1173 Earw

• Stokeporte 1190 LaCh

• Stokeport e13 et freq

• Stokeporte 1550 Dow

• Stokporte 1249 IpmR

• Stokport 1269 Ch 1292

• Stocport 1272 Chest

• Stockport c.1274 ib

• Stockeport(e) 1276 Cl 1501 Dow

• Stoppord 13 Sheaf 17 Eyre 1337 AddCh 1432 NewC 1437

• Stopporde, Stoppord apon Mersey 1536 Leland

• Stopport 1348 Eyre 1372 AddCh

• Stopporte 1565 Dow

• Stopporte alias Stockeporte 1576 ChRR

• Stopporth(e) 1541 Sheaf

• Stoport 1341 Eyre

• Stoperd 1687 Sheaf

• Stockford 1288 Chest 17

• Stokfort 1357 BPR

• Stokfort alias Stopford 1690 Sheaf

• Stopford 1347 Eyre

• Stopforde 1400–5 PremIt 1488(18),1506 Earw

• Stopfort 1357 ChFor

• Stopforth 1589 Dow

• Stoppeford 1365 BPR

• Stoppford 1616 Earw

• Stopfford alias Stokport 1527 Orm2

• Stockeniport 1551 Dow232

• Stapporte 1583 ChRR

• Stopwurthe c.1543 Orm2iii849

• Stopworth 1644 Earw

Etymology

'Market-place at a hamlet', v. stoc 'a secondary settlement', port 2 .The town was made a borough by charter in 1220. The late and unique spelling Stockeniport may suggest a popular etymology 'market-place constructed of, or enclosed with, logs' (i.e. 'stockaded') from stoccen (cf. stocc ). In DEPN Ekwall derives the p.n. from stocc and port and suggests that the original final el. may have been ford . The Stoke - spellings are against stocc . The variant forms of the p.n. could have arisen from the assimilation kp > pp , and from the coincidence of final -t as in port and unvoiced final -d as in ford > (fort (h )) which led to the substitution of -ford for -port .