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.

East Stoke

Major Settlement in the Parish of East Stoke

Historical Forms

  • Stoches 1086 DB
  • Stokes 1176 P c.1190 EHRxxvi 1219,1226 FF
  • Stokes juxta Farendon 1280 Ass
  • Stok(e) 1256 Ipm
  • Stok(e) juxta Farnedon, Stok(e) juxta Neuwerk 1330 FF 1332 SR
  • Stok(e) neghe Newarke 1538 Wills
  • Eststoke 1340 Ass
  • Eststooke 1654 ParReg(CarColston
  • Stoake al. East Stoake 1693 Recov
  • Stoake al. Stoake juxta Newarke super Trent al. Neville mannor al. Neither Hall al. Neather mannor 1718 Recov

Etymology

This is probably a stoc or dependent settlement in relation to Newark. East in relation to Stoke Bardolph supra 177.

Places in the same Parish