Cowick Barton
Early-attested site in the Parish of Exeter St Thomas
Historical Forms
- (on) cuic lande, (on) Cuike, (at) Cuicu (sic) c.1100 Earle
- Cuwic 1235 Fees561
- Coic 1086 DB
- Cuic c.1140 BM 1150–9 NGl4,27
- Cuick c.1270 Gerv
- Couwyk(e) 1269 Exon 1284 Ass
- Couwykstrete 1295 Ipm
- Cowek 1283 Ass
- Cowyck 1283 Exon
Etymology
'Cow farm,' cu, wic . Cf. Quickbury (Ess), Cuica DB, Cowik 1234, Cuwik 1240 FF and Bulwick (Nth)Bulewic 1162 P, Bulewich 1166, 1184 P.