Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• (centum agelli in loco qui dicitur) Stocland 998 SherC(S895) 12 SherC 1145 12

• Stocland, Stokland 1377 SoDoNQ

• (Stope)stoclond, Stopestokelond 1538 Digby

• Stock(e)lande Meade 1600,1614 Digby

• (Coopes) Stocklande 1614 Digby

• Stocklane 1617 Pitt

• Closes…called Stockland 1677 Digby

• Stock Land 1733 DROMap

Etymology

Stockland (lost, about ST 655172), (centum agelli in loco qui dicitur ) Stocland 998 (12) SherC (S 895), 1145 (12) SherC (f. 35v), Stocland , Stokland 1377 SoDoNQ, Stoklond 1427, Stockelond 1525Salis , 1538Digby , (Stope )stoclond , Stopestokelond 1538Digby , Stock (e )lande Meade 1600, 1614Digby , (Coopes ) Stocklande 1614Digby , Stocklane 1617Pitt , Closes …called Stockland 1677Digby , Stock Land 1733DROMap , probably 'estate or tract of land belonging to a religious foundation', v. stoc , land . The name is discussed by Ekwall, Studies2 32, along with Stockland D and Stockland Bristol So which are analogous (in spite of PN D 647). The stoc here probably refers to the monastery at Sherborne, which in 998 was reconstructed as a Benedictine house, v. Sherborne Abbey supra ; the earliest mention of Stocland occurs in the foundation charter of the reformed monastery, v. further L. Keen, Anglo -Saxon Towns in Southern England , ed. J. Haslam, 1984, pp. 211–2. Stope (s )- 1538 and Coopes - 1614 are no doubt surnames.