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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.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement