Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Stoneaskew 1581–1596 PR

• Stenascu 1672 ib

• Staneskew 1623 PR

• Stanescue 1627 ib

• Stenerskew(e), Stenerscu, Stenersku 1625,1641,1660 PR

• Stenerscugh 1690,1712 ib

• Stenesca(e) 1630,1658 PR

• Stenesku 1632 ib

• Steneskew 1710 ib

• -shay 1745 NWm

• Stennerscugh, Stennersk(e)ugh 1675,1684 PR 1776 WillQ 1823 M

• Stanerskew bridge 1730 BdyR(M.15)

Etymology

'Wood near the rocky ground', v. stǣner , skógr . The wood would have been below the large area of exposed rock and boulders now called Clouds or Stennerskeugh Clouds (infra ) at grid 90–745006.There are many examples of OE stǣner in YW vii, 249, often influenced by stān, ME  stone (as in the earlier forms of Stennerskeugh); the interchange of -er - and -a (y )- in unstressed syllables is also well- evidenced (cf. Gl iv, 67 §15).