Stoke Dry
Major Settlement in the Parish of Stoke Dry
Historical Forms
- Stoche 1086 DB
- Stoch' 1176 P
- Stok(e) 1179(p),1180(p),1181 P 1205,1220 FF 1263 Ass
- Dri- 1205 FF 1254 Val 1330 Pat
- Drie- 1220 RHug 1238 RGros 1374 Cl
- Drye- 1220 FF 1263 Ass 1376 Pat
- Drei- 1263 Ass
- Drey- 1304 FF
- Druye- 1295 ib
- Dry- 1294 Ass 1413 Pat 1428 Fine
- -drie 1281 OSut 1296 SR 1436 Banco
- -drye 1362 Ipm 1373 Peake 1610 Speed
- -dreye 1377 Peake
- -dry 1492 MktHPR 1510 LP 1546 Pat
Etymology
'The dairy farm', later distinguished by the affix 'dry', v. stoc , drȳge . The village is on a hill above the valley of Eye Brook which was marshy when Stoke acquired its qualifying epithet. The other stoc from which it was necessary to distinguish Stoke Dry may have been in neighbouring Caldecott, v. Big Stockwell in Caldecott f.ns. (a).