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Survey of English Place-Names

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Stoke Dry Wood

Early-attested site in the Parish of Stoke Dry

Historical Forms

  • Stocwod(e) 1235 Misc 1254 Cl 1255 Pat
  • Stokewod' 1269 For
  • Coppes called stoke wood within the Forrest of leighe feylde 1553 Surv
  • Stockewod Coppyes 1553 ib
  • Stockwood Copice 1553 ib
  • Stokwood salle sollde this yeare 1553 ib
  • Stokwode salle 1553 ib
  • Stockwood sale 1611 SP
  • Stockwood 1651 VCH 18 Rental
  • Stockwood Sale alias Stockwood alias Stockwood Coppice 1677,1694 Deed
  • Stockwoods 1729 Surv
  • Stock Wood 18 ib
  • Stockwood Wood 18 ib
  • Stoke End 1824 O

Etymology

The recorded Stokwood salle sollde this yeare is a useful confirmation of the meaning of the woodland term sale 'a division of a wood of which the underwood is cut down and sold', v. Nth 157. Stoke Great Wood is Stoke End 1824 O, v. ende 1 .

Places in the same Parish