Etymology

Stackpole

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Today it means: A village in Stackpole and Castlemartin community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SR9896). Full definition →

Old Norse stakkr
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived fromstakkr“stack”
  2. English todayStackpole

Apparently from Old Norse stakkr (“stack”) + pollr (“pool”).

Words from the same roots

Old Norsestakkr all →

stacksea stack

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.