English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Papplewick

Major Settlement in the Parish of Papplewick

Historical Forms

  • Papleuuic 1086 DB t.Hy2 Dugdvi
  • Papelvich 1108 Dugdv t.Ed2
  • Papilwik t.Hy2 Ch 1356 Fees 1242 NewsteadB 1286
  • Papilwyk 1332 SR
  • Papelwich t.Hy2 Ch 1316
  • Papelwicke 1199 ChR
  • Papelwic 1205 Dugdvi 1212 Fees
  • Papelwyc 1230 P
  • Papelwik 1247 Ch 1280 Ass
  • Papelwyk 1298 Pat
  • Papulwyk 1316 FA
  • Papewich' 1165,1166to1174 P
  • Pappewich' 1179 ib
  • Papewyke t.Hy2 RBE
  • Paplweeke 1630 ParReg(Mansfield)
  • Paplique 1658 ib

Etymology

'Dairy farm in the pebbly place,' v. wic . The first element is the OE  papol (stan ), 'pebble,' noted in Newton Poppleford (PN D 592). “Some of the fields on the east side of the village are very pebbly” (ex inf . H.H.S.).