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.

Finstock

Major Settlement in the Parish of Finstock

Historical Forms

Finestochia 1135–50 Eynsh 1300 Wych

Fines-stokes 1191–1205 Eynsh

Finstoke 1208 Eynsh

Foystoke 1285 Ass

Etymology

'stocfrequented by woodpeckers,' v. fīna .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name