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Stokes Croft

Other OS name in the Parish of Dunton Bassett

Historical Forms

  • Crafte 1601,1606 Terrier
  • Croft 1674 ib
  • Crofts 1697,1700 1762 ib

Etymology

, Crafte 1601, 1606Terrier , Croft 1674ib , Crofts 1697, 1700ib et passim to1762ib , v. croft ; presum . the eventual property of Thomas Stokes , a wealthy hosier of Leicester who was lord of the manor and founded the local school in 1849 .