Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Stoches 1086 DB

• tokes Otue de Insula 1167 P

• Stokes 1198 FF 1254–5 RH

• Stok' 1203 Cur 1224 FF 1235–6,1242–3 Fees

• Stoke 1209–35 WellsR 1278–9 RH

• Stoke Insula 1316 FA

• Stoke del Ile 1317 Ch

• Stoke del Isle 1328 Cl

• Stoke del Idle 1354 Ipm

• Stoke de Lisle 1360 Ipm

• Stokelisle 1400 Cooke 1452 Blo

• Stoke Insule 1428 FA

• Stoke Lisle 1525 Blo

• Stokelyle c.1530 Blo

• Stokelynde 1526 LS

• Stoke alias Stokelin 1573–4 Tusmore

• Stoke-lyne 1658 Blo

• Estokes 1212 Cur

Etymology

v. stoc . The place was bought by William Lynde in the early 15th century, according to Blo viii, 11. The present suffix looks like a blending of his surname with that of the earlier owners, the family of del Isle or Insula . In the will of the later owner, given Blo viii, 12, he calls himself “I, William Lynde of Stokelisle.”