Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Stottingewaie 1212 P

• Stotingeweye 1288 Ass

• Stottyngewey 1486 Weld1

• Stokingway 1236 Fees

• Stokkyngweye 1361 Cl

• Scottingesweye 1249 FF

• Stottyngeswey(e) 1457 Ct 1464 DCMCt 1465 Weld1

• Stoting Waye 1280 Ass

• Stotyngweye 1399 Cl

• Stotynwey 1530 Weld1

• Stotingway vulgo Stotton 1774 Hutch1 1863 Hutch3

• Stottyngetone 1285 FA

• Stottynton 1445 Rent

• Stottynways 1285 FA

• Stottingway(e), Stottyngway(e), Stottyngwey(e) 1288 1346 FF 1348 Ipm 1392 Pat 1481 Ct 1664,1682 Weld1

• Stottynwaye 1288 Ass

• Scottingwaye 1305 FF

• Statting(e)way 1649 SC 1664 HTax

Etymology

The final el. is the r.n. Wey as in Upwey supra , although there is some early alternation with tūn 'farm, village', surviving as the later Stotton . The first part of the name is difficult. Only two of the early forms point to OE  stoccing 'a piece of ground cleared of stumps' (tentatively suggested by Fägersten 161 but accepted by Smith EPN 2 157), and it does not look likely; the base was almost certainly Stotting -, the two forms in -k (k )- being perhaps due to dissimilation t-t > t-k or more probably, as Dr von Feilitzen points out, to scribal association of the first el. with stocc . One possibility is that Stotting - is a manorial affix (cf. Creketway in Broadwey par. supra , Causeway in Radipole par. supra , etc.); this could be from an OE  pers.n. Stotting , a derivative with -ing 3 of OE  stott 'an inferior kind of horse, an ox'.Alternatively Stotting - could represent an earlier p.n. from the same el. stott (or a pers.n. Stott formed from it, cf. Reaney s.n.Stott ) and -ing 2 , which would have meant something like 'place where horses or oxen are kept' (or 'Stott's place'). Cf. the f.n. Stotingmede in Owermoigne par. supra .