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.

Wickham Bushes

Early-attested site in the Parish of Easthampstead

Etymology

The connection between OE  wīchām and Roman roads and settlements is discussed in M. Gelling, 'English Place-Names derived from the Compound wīchām ', Medieval Archaeology XI (1967), 87– 104. v. also Wickham in Welford (Pt 2) and Introd.