 In the Domesday Book of 1086 , Chew Stoke was listed as Chiwestoche , and was recorded as belonging to Gilbert Fitz @-@ Turold . He conspired with the Duke of Normandy against King William Rufus , and subsequently , all his lands were seized . The next recorded owner was Lord Beauchamp of Hache . He became " lord of the manor " when the earls of Gloucester , with hereditary rights to Chew Stoke , surrendered them to him . According to Stephen Robinson , the author of Somerset Place Names , the village was then known as Chew Millitus , suggesting that it may have had some military potential . The name " Stoke " , from the old English stoc , meaning a stockade , may support that idea . 
