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.

Stocksbridge

Major Settlement in the Parish of Ecclesfield

Historical Forms

  • Stocks Br 1841 O.S.

Etymology

a nineteenth-century township taken from Bradfield. Cf. Stockbridge 25supra , to which belong the earlier spellings cited by Goodall for Stocksbridge.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement