Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• ?Wai(a) 1086 DB, Exon

• Waie 1194 P 1201,1209 FF

• Wai(a) c.1201 Sarum

• Waya c.1201 1225 Pat l13 Ilch 1259 Cl

• Way(e) 1237 FF 1244 Ass 1363 Cl

• La Waye 1244 Ass

• Wey(e) 1312–4 Fine 1315 Cl 1440 Weld1

• Way(e) Ba(y)(h)(o)us(e) 1237 Sarum 1285 FA 1288 Ass 1428 FA

• Way(e) Baiocis 1288 Ipm

• Way(e) Baihous 1412 FA

• Weybause 1291 Tax

• Weye Bayose 1303 Ipm

• Weye Bayhous 1418 Marten

• Weybayhouse 1504 Ipm

• Uppeweie 1241 Ass

• Upeweye 1311 Fine

• Upway(e), Upwey(e) 1327 SR 1329 Weld1 1332 SR

• Ho(w)pweyʒe 1393 AD

• Upway alias Bayhouse 1566 Hutch3

• Upwey alias Waybaiouse 1863 ib

• Waye Pigace 1243 Fees

• Wayepigaz 1246 FF

• Waye Pagace 1388 IpmR

• Waye Pygace 1392 Pat

• Pygatewaye 1272 FF

• Way(e) Hamundevill 1249 FF

• Wayhenedeford 1280 Ass

• Way(e) Hamond(e)vill(e) 1343 Hutch3 1363 Cl

• Way(e) Hamundevyle 1343–5 Ipm

• Way(e) Hamondwylle 1363 ib

• Weye Hamundevile 1311 FF

• Weyhamondvile, Weyhamondvyle alias Uppewey alias Weybayouse 1456 Pat

• Weyhamondevyle otherwise Upwey otherwise Waybayhouse 1466 Cl

• Weyhamond(es)feld alias Upwey 1481 Ct 1486 Weld1

• Wayhamondville 1622 DCMDeed

• Waye Raba(y)ne 1288 Ass

Etymology

Named from R. Wey, v. RNs.infra , cf. Broadwey par. supra where some of the early forms in Wai (e ), Way (a ), Wey (e ) etc. may strictly belong, and where the DB forms are discussed. Up - means 'upper, higher' with reference to its situation, relative to the other manors called Wey , on the river, which rises here, v. upp , Elwell infra .Bayhouse , etc. is from the family of Baieux (from Bayeux, Normandy), of which Alan de Bayocis was here c. 1200 (Sarum) and John Bayouse founded a chantry here in 1244 (Hutch3 2 840, cf. Chapel Lane infra ), cf. also John de Baiocis als. de Bays 1248 Ipm, Stephen de Bahus 1249 FF, Stephen de Baiocis 1309 Cl, and Hutch3 2 840–1; this affix survives in the name of the liberty of Wabyhouse (v. under Culliford Tree hundred supra ), and in Wabey House (Kelly), a private residence in Upwey, cf. also Bayard Fm infra . Pigace , etc. and Hamundevill , etc. must also be manorial affixes, although no persons so named have been noted in connection with Upwey; Fägersten 160 cites several instances of the surname Pigace in mediaeval records (e.g. John Pygaz 1272 FF (Do), cf. also Winterb (o )urn Pygace for a part of Winterborne Monkton par. infra ), and plausibly suggests that some member of the family of Amundevill (cf. Thorpe Mandeville Nth 61) may have held land here of the Beauchamps just as in Melcombe H. par. infra (cf. Hutch3 2841, 4364 f). Raba (y )ne is also manorial; Maud de Rabayn held land here in 1259, 1260 Cl, cf. also Ellis de Rabayn 1264 Pat, Maud de Rabayn 1288Ass , Isabel de Raban 1327SR , and Hutch3 2 840–1.