British places

[radeberger]

What is the most common place name in Britain?

[mazie]

Stoke ( I would check, but it is very common)

[mazie]

Stoke is one of the most common place names in the United Kingdom and in historical documents.
Originally from the Old English 'stoc' meaning 'place', it came to be used in two special senses, i) a religious place and ii) a secondary settlement (see Roome ISBN 0 7475 0170 X)

It can refer to any of the following places:

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Stoke-upon-Trent, a town in the city of Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke, Chester, Cheshire
Stoke, Crewe and Nantwich, Cheshire
Stoke, Devon
Stoke, Hampshire
Stoke, Hayling Island, Hampshire
Stoke, Kent
Stoke Abbott, Dorset
Stoke Ash, Norfolk
Stoke Bardolph, Nottinghamshire
Stoke Bishop, Bristol
Stoke Bliss, Herefordshire
Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire
Stoke by Clare, Suffolk
Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk
Stoke Canon, Devon
Stoke Charity, Hampshire
Stoke Climsland, Cornwall
Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey
Stoke Doyle, Northamptonshire
Stoke Dry, Rutland
Stoke Edith, Herefordshire
Stoke Ferry, Norfolk
Stoke Fleming, Dorset
Stoke Gabriel, Devon
Stoke Gifford, Bristol
Stoke Golding, Leicestershire
Stoke Goldington, Milton Keynes
Stoke next Guildford, Surrey
Stoke Hammond, Buckinghamshire
Stoke Heath, Shropshire
Stoke Heath, Worcestershire
Stoke Holy Cross, Norfolk
Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire
Stoke Lyne, Oxfordshire
Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire
Stoke Newington, London
Stoke on Tern, Shropshire
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Stoke Orchard, Gloucestershire
Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire
Stoke Pound, Worcestershire
Stoke Prior, Herefordshire
Stoke Prior, Worcestershire
Stoke Rivers, Devon
Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire
Stoke Row, Berkshire

21:41 Tue 10th Mar 2009