sentences:  One suggestion is that this refers to "Folca's stone"; another suggestion is that it came from an Old English personal name, with the addition of "stone", possibly meaning, in this context, "meeting place".It was not until the mid 19th century that the spelling of "Folkestone" was fixed as such, with the Earl of Radnor requesting that the town's name be standardised (although this tendency towards standardisation in the 19th century is true of English place names generally).Folkestone is often misspelt, variants including Folkston, Folkstone & Folkeston.