Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Stoches 1086 DB(f.82)

• Stok(e) 1268 Ass 1291 Tax 1316 FA 1338–40 Glast 1428 FA 1575 Saxton

• Stokke 1327 SR 1375 Fine 1390 Pat 1455 Sher

• Stocke 1332 SR 1439 Sher

• Stocke otherwise called Stoke Colyard' 1527 Hutch3 1569–74 Map 1709 WRO

• Stok Coillerd 1299 Banco

• Stock Coylard 1302 ib

• Stoke Coil(l)ard 1304 Ipm 1305 Cl 1431 FA

• Stocke Kuylard 1304 Ipm

• Stock Collyard 1585 Hutch3

• Stoke Gaillard 1316 Inqaqd

• Stoke Goillard 1340 NI

• Stok(k)e Gaylard, Stock Gaylard 1393,1544,1637 Hutch3

• Stocke-Gaylerd 1629 Salkeld

• Stoke Galliard Hamlett, Stoke Galeard 1664 HTax

• Stock-Galliard 1779 DROMap

• Stokkeylore 1412 FA

• Stockalliard 1603 Weld2

• Stoke Wiliams, Stok Willim 1271 CurR

Etymology

'Outlying farm buildings, a secondary settlement', v. stoc (nom.pl. stocu , new ME  pl. stokes ). The affix is no doubt manorial, though no family of the name Coilard or Gaylard has been noted in connection with the place (the surnames of Nicholas Callard ', Richard Coulard '1332 SR (taxed in Up Cerne and Folke respectively) and of William Coulard 1436 Hutch3 (granted land in Stalbridge) are probably different in origin, cf. also Reaney s.nn. Collard and Galliard ). The church here (dedication unknown) is mentioned as the 'church of Stok Coilard '1410 Pat, cf. also Adam atte Church 1340 NI. The forms Stoke Wiliams , Stok Willim 1271 CurR (Drew), occurring in connection with the adjacent par. of Stourton Caundle, may also belong here, cf. the possession of the DB manor of Stoches by William de Eu in 1086 (VCHDo 392).