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Who are we?
Who are we?
Our names are James (aged 8) and Harry (aged 7) and we live in Stoke Golding. We decided to start this website as a summer project.
We like to go for walks with Mummy and Dale also with our dogs. On our walks we see and learn lots of interesting things so we thought we would share them in a website.
Where are we?
Where are we?
Stoke Golding is in the heart of England, on the edge of Leicestershire, close to the Warwickshire border. It is close to Hinckley (about two miles away) and it is 16 miles away from the city of Leicester.
Why is it called stoke golding?
Why is it called stoke golding?
Stoke is a Saxon word meaning log or fenced in place. A family also used to live here called Stoke in 1150. We don't know if they named themselves after the village or if the village was named after them. The village was part of a large Saxon estate and was the dairy farm. There is still a dairy farm in Stoke Golding today.
Golding does not appear until about 1570 and there are several possible suggestions for its origin. It could be an old word that means "crowning" because of Henry VII's coronation being here. It could also be because there were lots of bright, golden yellow flowers that tended to grow here. It could be that it comes from the name Stokeholden. There were two fields at the end of the village called the Oulden.
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