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.

Stoneygate

Other OS name in the Parish of Knighton

Historical Forms

  • Stongate 1515 VCHL

Etymology

, 1835 O , 1846, 1863, 1877 White , Stongate 1515VCHL , v. stān , stānig , gata ; the Leicester end of the Roman Via Devana ( later Gartree Road ) .