page_title: West Stockwith
section_title: Etymology
hierarchical_section_title: West Stockwith / Etymology
caption_attribution_description: English: Narrowboat in West Stockwith lock just ascended from the River Trent
context_page_description: West Stockwith is a village within the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England. The population at the 2011 census was 327. it lies on the west bank of the River Trent, 3 miles north-west of Gainsborough and 1.5 miles east of Misterton. West Stockwith is an ecclesiastical parish in the Church of England Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham with the parish church of St Mary the Virgin's Church, West Stockwith being built in 1722.
  East Stockwith is a settlement on the other side of the Trent, but within the county boundaries of Lincolnshire. The two villages were once linked together by a passenger ferry.
context_section_description: Unlike other places in the region which have "with" in their names, which is usually from Old Norse vīōr "wood", cognate with Old English wudu "wood", the second element here is Old Norse wath "ford, river crossing", as seen in Wath upon Dearne. The first element is less clear: it is either Old English stocc "tree-trunk" or stoc "village, outlying farmstead" (as seen in Stoke-on-Trent and Stoke Poges. The name was recorded as Wessockiv in 1139.
caption: Canal boat in West Stockwith Lock
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