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.

Waterstock

Major Settlement in the Parish of Waterstock

Historical Forms

Stoch 1086 DB

Stoches c.1188–91 Os

Waterstokes 1208–13 Fees c.1300

Stokes 1236 Os

Waterstok 1247 Ass

Etymology

v. stoc 'place,' to which 'water' has been prefixed.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site