English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Stoke Plain, Plain Woods

Early-attested site in the Parish of Stoke Bruerne

Etymology

Stoke Plain, Plain Woods. Cf. Plaine Close , the Plaine 1672LRMB , Plane Woods 1826 G. If, as is probable, this is a late name, we may have the ordinary word plain , 'flat country.'

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement

Early-attested site