Stoke

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English

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Etymology

From Old English stoc (“place”).

Proper noun

Stoke

  1. Short for Stoke-on-Trent, a city in Staffordshire, England.
    • 1946 November and December, “Notes and News: A North Staffordshire Railway Centenary”, in Railway Magazine, page 389:
      The main line of the L.N.W.R. passed to the west of the Potteries, and it is recorded that in August, 1846, two trains were run from Whitmore (the nearest station to Stoke) to Liverpool for the benefit of excursionists.
  2. A village on Hayling Island, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7102).
  3. A village and civil parish in Medway borough, Kent, England; the parish includes Lower Stoke and Middle Stoke (OS grid ref TQ8275). [1]
  4. An eastern suburb of Coventry, West Midlands, England (there are a few places in Coventry with other affixes of Stoke) (OS grid ref SP3679). [2]
  5. A civil parish in Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire, England. [3][4]
  6. An outer suburb of Nelson, New Zealand, not far from Richmond. [5]

Usage notes

Stoke is also incorporated into many other English place names, which will be listed below.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Parish map (Kent)
  2. ^ OS: Coventry
  3. ^ Stoke Parish Council
  4. ^ Parish map (Worcestershire)
  5. ^ NZ Topo Map

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