Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• ?Stoches 1086 DB(f.79b)

• Stokes 1166 RBE 1244 Ass 1291 Tax 1293 Ipm 1358 Pat

• Estokes 1316 FA

• Stok(e) 1284 Cl 1285 FA 1288 Ass 1303 FA 1498 Ct

• Stoke by Bynedon (Abbots) 1380 Misc 1382 Pat

• Stoke iuxta Bynedon p1483 Sheen

• Stoke alias East Stoke iuxta Bindon c.1628 Strode

• Estok(e) 1316 FA 1335 Cl

• Estok(e) juxta Bynedon 1346 FF

• 'Estok(e) by Byndon' 1403 Pat 1412 FA

• Estok(e) iuxta Bynedon 1422 Weld1

• Stokke 1412 FA

• East Stoake 1664 HTax

• Bindonestok 13 EPN 2 154

• Westok 1359 Strode

Etymology

'Outlying farm buildings, a secondary settlement', v. stoc (nom. pl. stocu , new ME  pl. stokes ). East perhaps in relation to Bindon (Abbey) in Wool par. infra , cf. the form Bindonestok 13 EPN 2154 (source untraced) which may refer to East Stoke rather than to Bindon Abbey as suggested loc. cit. ; however the isolated form Westok 1359Strode , if it is not an error for Estok , suggests that there was earlier a 'West Stoke' too, v. ēast , west . The bounds of the manor of E Stoke are given in c. 1628Strode M4. For the identification of the Count of Mortain's DB manor of Stoches with E Stoke, v. Hutch3 1410, Eyton 142, Fägersten 144, DBGazetteer 120; VCHDo 3 87, 142 identifies it with Stock Gaylard in Lydlinch par. infra .