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Stoke Newington
(N) Said to mean the new town in the meadow by the wood. The word Stoke comes from the Anglo-Saxon stocc, "the stock or stem of a tree," or " a stockade " ; ton is old English for "town"; ing Anglo-Saxon for "a meadow." The derivation may therefore be "the stockaded new town." |
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