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.

Clyst St George

Major Settlement in the Parish of Clyst St George

Historical Forms

  • Clyst wicon 963 BCS1103
  • (of) Clistwike 1072–1103 Earle
  • Clisewic 1086 DB
  • Clistwich' 1200 Cur
  • Clistwike 1259 Exon 1291 Tax
  • Clystwik Sī Georgii 1327 Ass
  • Clyst Sancti Georgii 1334 SR
  • Seynt Georgeclist 1390 FF 1396 Pat

Etymology

v. wic . For the river Clyst, v. supra 3.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site