Navestock
Major Settlement in the Parish of Navestock
Historical Forms
- Nasingestok 867 BCS1210 ?967 c.1240
- Næsingstoc c.970 Bodl(James23) 17th
- (of) Næsingstoce c.1000 CCC383 c.1125
- Nasestocā 1086 DB
- Nassestoca 12th StP
- Nasestoc(k) 1254 FF 1291 Tax
- (aliam) Nessetocham 1086 DB
- Astocam ib.
- Astok' 1248 Ass
- Nastoc(h)a 1181,12th StP
- Nastok(e) 1234–68 FF
- Nastok(e) Glouernye 1238 SR 1248 Ass
- alia Nastok(e), Nastok(e) Sancti Pauli 1254 Ass 1274 RH 1297 VStP c.1300 StP
- Nauescote 1327 Ipm
- Navestok(e) 1393,1480 IpmR 1428 FA 1474 FF
- Navestok(e) Frith 1498 ERxiv
- Knavestock 1749 EssPRiv
- Nawstoke 1451 MinAcct 1459–65 ECP
- Naystoke 1493–1500 ib
- Nevesto(c)ke 1505 ADvi 1560 FF
- Nasshestoke 1533–8 ECP
Etymology
The new form Næsingstoce , from a document of which the forms are as a rule good, suggests that this name should be interpreted as a compound of næs and stocc , loosely linked by ing , denoting 'the stocc on the headland,' an interpretation which would suit the topography well. Cf. Karlström 124 and Tavistock (PN D 217). It has been suggested that Navestock was a settlement from Nazeing supra 25, but that is eight miles away, with the ridge of the forest intervening, so that group- movement seems unlikely. The normal development would be to Naystock . There is no justification for the medial v which is late and due perhaps to association with the common knave .Sancti Pauli because one of the manors of St Paul 's .