Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Halganstoke 998 SherC(S895) 12

• Halgastoca(m) 1145 12 ib

• Halgestoc 1125 12 ib

• Halgestok(e) 1191 Salis c.1193 Osm 1238 Sarum 1265 Misc 1268,1288 Ass 1291 Tax 1306 AddCh

• Halgestok(e) juxta Chedyngton 1326 Drew

• Halgestoch 1212 P

• Halgstok' 1268 Ass

• Halthestoke 1163 Dugd

• Halkestok' 1202 P

• Hakestok' 1268 Ass

• Hagelestok' 1230 P

• Halewestok 1230 ChancR 1350 Add 18

• Halewestocke 1535 VE

• Halwestok(e) 1280 Ass 1315 Pat 1379,1385,1447 AddCh

• Halewstok' 1349 Surv

• Halu(e)stoke 1392 IpmR 1424 Cl

• Halghestok(e) 1244,1268,1280 Ass 1285 FA 1288 1291 Tax 1379 AddCh

• Halegh(e)stok 1244 Ass 1279 Cl 1288 Ass

• Halghenstoke 1386 AddCh

• Halichestoke 1284–6 Kirkby Eliz

• Halystoke 1535 VE

• Hallestok 1399 Pat

• Halstock 1514 PlR

• Halstok(e) 1533 PlR 1563 Glyn

• Halstocke 1554 PlR

• Hallstock(e) 1664 HTax

• Hallstock otherwise Hallowstock 1720 DCMDeed 1862 Gre

Etymology

'The holy outlying farmstead', that is 'the outlying farmstead belonging to a religious foundation', from hālig (wk.obl. hālgan ) and stoc , so called because from an early date the estate belonged to the monastery at Sherborne (v. Sherborne Abbey 3 358–9), v. Ekwall Studies2 21, M. Gelling, The Early Church in Western Britain and Ireland (ed. Pearce), 194.