stōc, n.n: place (?); a word occurring mostly in place names, either alone or in compounds. (STOAK / ˈstoːk)
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stōc, n.n: place (?); a word occurring mostly in place names, either alone or in compounds. (STOAK / ˈstoːk)
Old English Wordhord 
I once worked with a guy from Stoke on Trent and he wasn’t surprised to find out that ‘Stoke’ just meant ‘place’, as in “that there place near the Trent”.
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Yes, it makes sense that so many places in England have the element “stoke” or “stock” in them.
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Yep. There’s a Stoke in Coventry (my home city), an East Stoke just outside Newark (where I live now) and a Stoke Rochford just south of Grantham. My ex colleague was a bit underwhelmed with the dull meaning of his home town though 😉
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There’s a Churchstock on the Shropshire/Powys border. In Welsh it’s Yr Ystog which means settlement.
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Interesting – are the Welsh and OE related, I wonder?
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A lot of Welsh is Welshified spelling of English words. I expect there were a lot of English words adopted into welsh and vice versa in the Marches.
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