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.

Swanwick Green

Early-attested site in the Parish of Marbury Chapelry

Historical Forms

  • Squanewic 13 NRA
  • (bruera de)Swanewik 1250–6 Chol 1325 ChRR
  • (bruera de)Swanewyk c.1300 Chol
  • Swanewike 1311–13 Orm2
  • Swanwyk 1319 ChRR 1575 Chol
  • Swanwyck 1568 Orm2
  • Swanwycke Greene 1575 Chol
  • Swanwicke 1579 ib
  • Swanway Greene 1630 Chol
  • Swanhow Green 1831 Bry
  • Swanna or Swanwick Green 1842 OS 1882 Orm2

Etymology

'Peasants' dairy-farm or work-settlement', v. swān 2 (gen.pl. swāna ), wīc , and grēne 2 . Cf. Swanwick, Swannick 2228, 208, 256.