Stoke
See also: stoke
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old English stoc (“place”).
Proper noun edit
Stoke
- 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.
- A village on Hayling Island, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7102).
- A village and civil parish in Medway borough, Kent, England; the parish includes Lower Stoke and Middle Stoke (OS grid ref TQ8275).
- An eastern suburb of Coventry, West Midlands, England (there are a few places in Coventry with other affixes of Stoke) (OS grid ref SP3679). [1]
- A civil parish in Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire, England. [2]
- An outer suburb of Nelson, New Zealand, not far from Richmond. [3]
Usage notes edit
Stoke is also incorporated into many other English place names, which will be listed below.
Derived terms edit
Terms derived from Stoke
- Bradley Stoke
- Harry Stoke
- Itchen Stoke
- Limpley Stoke
- Little Stoke
- Middle Stoke
- Rodney Stoke
- Severn Stoke
- Stoke Albany
- Stoke Bruerne
- Stoke-by-Clare
- Stoke-by-Nayland
- Stoke Canon
- Stoke Climsland
- Stoke D'Abernon
- Stoke Doyle
- Stoke Edith
- Stoke Ferry
- Stoke Gabriel
- Stoke Gifford
- Stoke Hammond
- Stoke Holy Cross
- Stoke Lyne
- Stoke Mandeville
- Stoke Newington
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Stoke Orchard
- Stoke Poges
- Stoke Prior
- Stoke Rochford
- Stoke St Gregory
- Stoke St Michael
- Stoke sub Hamdon
- Stoke Trister
- Stoke Works