A History of BIRMINGHAM Places & Placenames . . . from A to Y

William Dargue - A History of Birmingham Places & Placenames . . .  from A to Y

 

Stockfield

B25 - Grid reference SP123840

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This name is remembered now only in the street name, Stockfield Road. The name may have an Anglo-Saxon origin. This is often a difficlt placename element to interpret: stoc may mean simply a place or a dwelling, but stocc means a 'stake' or a 'post' and implies land that is fenced in, perhaps for livestock.


Stockfield was one of great open fields of Tenchley, known as Heyne Field ie. high field and lay between Arden Road, Stockfield Road, Mansfield Road and Wynford Road. Stockfield Farm was a timber-framed house infilled with brick which was demolished for the widening of Stockfield Road in the 1930s.

 

 

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Map below reproduced from Andrew Rowbottom’s website of Old Ordnance Survey maps Popular Edition, Birmingham 1921. See Acknowledgements. Click the map to link to that website.