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  -bec, beck
  -burgh
  -by, bi
  -chester, caister
  -den, dene
  -don
  -field
  -firth
  -ford
  -hall
  -ham
  -ing
  -kirk
  -ley, lea, leigh
  -minster
  -scale
  -sea, sey
  -shaw, shawe
  -stock, stoke, stow
  -thwaite
  -ton
  -ville
  -wick
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New Light on Old Place Names

STOW, STOWE, STOKE, STOCK
Basic meaning="church"
A few place names using the term
Stow is a place where farmers meet together to trade their stock of good, crops or animals. In fact, even today, storekeepers still refer to the contents of a shop as "stock", and farmers call their animals their "stock".
Chepstow
Stoke
Stoke Newington
Stowmarket
Walthamstow
Cheap Market
Market Place
Enclosure where there is a new market
Market place where they hold a regular market
Market at the home in the forest


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