Voka

This article is about the small borough in Toila Parish, Ida-Viru County. For the village in the same parish, see Voka (village).

Voka
Small borough
Reservoir in Voka
Country	Estonia
County	Ida-Viru County
Parish	Toila Parish
Population  (2011 Census [1] )
• Total	823
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Voka is a small borough (alevik) in Toila Parish, Ida-Viru County in northeastern Estonia. As of the 2011 census, the settlement's population was 823, of which the Estonians were 687 (83.5%). ^[1]

Name

The name of the borough of Voka is adapted from the surname of Johann Fock (listed in 1620 as Hans Fåk), who owned a manor in what was then the village of Kollota, southeast of today's borough. The manor was initially named Kollota Manor (Estonian : Kollota mõis), as attested in 1726. In 1781, the manor was bought by the Englishwoman Elizabeth Pierrepont, Duchess of Kingston-upon-Hull (née Elisabeth Chudleigh), who gave it the name Fokenhof and built a new clifftop manor north of today's borough over looking the Baltic Sea. The site of that manor and the adjacent area appears on various older maps as Chudleig(h) and Чудлейгъ or Чадлейгъ. By the 18th century, the village of Voka southwest of the borough had acquired the name Voka. A new settlement named Voka was established in the 1920s at the site of Chudleigh's manor, and another in the 1970s near the post station, and these were merged in 1977 to become today's borough of Voka. ^[2]

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Voka include the following:

• Elizabeth Pierrepont, Duchess of Kingston-upon-Hull (1721–1788), English courtier and courtesan

References

1. "Population by place of residence (settlement), sex and age". Statistics Estonia. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
2. "Voka". Dictionary of Estonian Place Names. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut. Retrieved July 17, 2025.

External links

Media related to Voka at Wikimedia Commons

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