Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Hewish Hill 1840 TA(Upwey)

• Huwysshe 1399,1467 Ilch

• viam iuxta Hywysshhegge 1472 Weld1

Etymology

Hewish Hill (SY 995837), Hewish Hill 1840TA (Upwey), named from Huwysshe 1399, 1467Ilch , cf. Hewishe meade 1562Fry , East Huish 1811 OS (now Hewish Hill Ctgs), West Huish ib (now Corton Dairy Ho infra ), Little Hewish , Threshers Hewish 1859TA (cf. ten ' nuper Ade Thresshar '1396Ilch (Abbotsbury), Richard Thresher , William Thresher 1664 HTax, John Hardy Thresher 1867 Hutch3), and Hewish Coppice & Hewish Dairy in Upwey par. 1 246, v. hīwisc 'a household, a measure of land that would support a family'. It is probable that the form viam iuxta Hywysshhegge ('hedge of Hywyssh ') 1472Weld 1, cited among the lost f.ns. of Winterborne St Martin par. 1 378, also belongs here (although the par. bdy of Winterborne lies some 2 miles N of Hewish Hill, perhaps thus suggesting the extent of the unit of land): but there is still no evidence to support the identification of the lost DB manor of Hiwes (f. 80b) with this name.