Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Stoc, æt Stoce 804 BCS313 11th ib

• æt Stoke ib 314

• æt Stoce 883 ib

• æt Stóce 969 ib

• be westan stoce 984 KCD646 11th

• æt Bisceopes stoce, Bysceopes stoce 969 BCS1236 11th KCD646 984 11th

• Stoche 1086 DB

• Stok(e) 1221 Eyre 1256 Cl 1489 Pat

• Stok(e) Episcopi, Stok(e) Ep'i 1285 FA 1287 Ass 1307 FF

• Bishops Stok(e) 1547 Pat

• Stok(e) Bysshopp, Stok(e) Busshopp 1570 FF

Etymology

v. stoc 'dependent farmstead', cf. Stoke Gifford (140supra ).Stoke Bishop belonged to the Bishops of Worcester before 969 (BCS 1236) and continued in their possession for several centuries (Taylor, DB 198).