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Survey of English Place-Names

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Kepwick

Major Settlement in the Parish of Over Silton

Historical Forms

  • Capuic, Chipuic 1086 DB
  • Chepewic 1166 P
  • Kepwic, Kepuuic, Kepwyche 1202 FF 1208–10 Fees 1234 Guis
  • Kepewyk, Kepewick 1224–30 Fees 1240 Riev 1285 KI 1298 Abbr 1301 LS 1348 Baildon
  • Keppewic, Keppewyk 1310 Ch 1316 Vill
  • Kepyk, Kepec 1451 Test 1505 Sanct

Etymology

On topographical grounds this name cannot reasonably be connected with OE  cēap , 'market,' with Scandinavianised initial consonant. A pers. name is far more probable. There is an OSwed  p.n. Kæplinge which Hellquist (ON -inge 86) connects with the pers. name *Kappe assumed by Lundgren-Brate (146) to lie behind certain Swedish p.n.'s. A mutated derivative Kæppi formed from the name would explain the forms of Kepwick.The possibility then is that the name means 'Kæppi's vik' or 'nook in the hills.'

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Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement