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.

Stakesby

Early-attested site in the Parish of Whitby

Historical Forms

  • Staxebi 1086 DB
  • Stachesbi, Stachesby 1090–6 YCh 1133,1155–65 Whitby 1314 NRS
  • Stakesbi, Stakesby 1100–c.1115 YCh
  • Stakisby 1395 Whitby

Etymology

'Staki's farm' v. by . The first element is probably the ON  by-name Stáki (LindBN) with genitival -s substituted for -a (the weak form), rather than the by-name Stakkr , gen. Staks (LindBN) which would have become Stax -.