Wyke Regis
Major Settlement in the Parish of Wyke Regis
Historical Forms
- Uuike, (to) Wike 978×984 Add(S938) 14
- Wik(e) 1212 Fees 1221 Cur 1237 Cl 1566 Comm
- Wik(e) juxta Porland 1249 Acct
- Wika, Wica Hy3 Cerne 14 Cur 1223
- Wick 1220 1243 Pap
- Wyk(e) 1100–7 WinchCath l13 Cl 1237 Ass 1244 FA 1431
- Wyka 1236 Cl
- (la) Wyk' iuxta Weymue 1288 Ass
- Kingeswik 1242 Cl
- Kyngeswyk(e) 1309 FF 1365 ADI
- Wykes 1244 Ass
- Wikes 1263 Pat
- Wyke Regis 1407 Cl 1442,1455 Pat
- Wicke Regis 1570 AddCh 1652 Weld1
- Weke 1525 ADII 1539 LP 1575 Saxton
- Weeke Regis Eliz ChancP 1664 HTax 1675 Salkeld
- King's Weeke 1689 Hutch3
Etymology
v. wīc . The meaning may be '(dependent) farm' (perhaps originally with reference to dependence on Portland), or 'harbour, fishery' (cf. the four fishermen at Brige in 1086 DB, one of only two references to fishing in Dorset DB, v. Bridge Fm infra , VCHDo 3 100, 111–2, and cf. VCHDo 2353 for the fishery at Wyke in the 14th cent.). It was anciently a royal demesne (Hutch3 2850, VCHDo 327), v. cyning , rex (gen. sg. regis ), cf. Portland, Weymouth supra . For the We (e )ke spellings, v. EPN 2 261. The bounds of Wyke (including also parts of Weymouth and Melcombe R., cf. Grundy 766) are given in 978 × 984 (14) Add (S 938). For the liberty of Wyke R. & Elwell, v. under Culliford Tree hundred supra .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
Field
- Abergavenny Ctg
- Adlands
- Angel Gdn
- Barn Fd
- ( Small ) Barrow
- Bowditch
- ( Little ) Bowhays
- E Burdon
- Butts
- Carrion Pit
- Catherine 's Cl
- Chaphays
- Church Naps
- Claylands
- Cobourg Ctg and Gdn
- Cockle
- Crab ( ' s ) Md ( w )
- Crooked Thom
- Davis Cl
- Down ( Coppice )
- Drove Cl
- Ebb 's Fleet
- Elver Oaks Bottom
- Fisherman 's Arms Inn
- Gentleman 's Furze
- Georgecrofts
- Gibbon 's Cl
- Goose Lease
- Gower Hill
- Green Down
- Herring
- Home Cl
- Homer 's Cl
- Lines
- Little Grd
- Gt Long Cl
- Longlands
- Lowell
- Meadow Long Cl
- Mortcleves
- Old Hill
- Overlands
- Paddock
- Parsonage Cl
- Pitt 's Cl
- ( West ) Reeve Md ( w )
- Roughwalls
- Rye Md
- Sea House
- Snake Down
- South Cl
- South Fd
- Spice Croft
- Stone Quarry
- Stone 's Cl
- Tullidge 's Grd
- Wall Cl
- Withy Bed
- Woodlands
- Wyld ( Mdw )
- Alwigs
- Bat ( s ) comb ( e ) Cross
- locum voc ' Beches
- pastura … Biwestewike
- Blagdo ( w ) n
- to blake ston
- Broad Close
- prat ' iuxta le Broke
- Bulworks
- Buryrydyng
- Chalcotts
- Chester [ … ] lang
- Collelane
- the Common
- Coombs
- Corbettys
- Cowhes
- Deadman
- Estfeld ( e )
- the East Stile
- Fern Close Corner
- Fisher 's Close
- Frythwod ( e )
- grangia
- Heathentine
- Hyde Harvest Bower
- Hyrudyng
- Hilperdonesmede
- Holcomb
- Intrishins
- pastura in … Lake
- Lea Yards House
- Leyes
- the West Gate of Long Mead
- Lopeback
- Lowsie Bush
- Mayncockes
- Middle Way
- Myllewey
- de la Myre
- Mogacre
- Mochelmondelyes
- inne muledich … andlang
- New Inclosure
- North Down ( e )
- North furlong
- Nourngayng
- Oteruggestenement cum j molendino … pertin
- camp ' de Pokulchurche
- Pothays
- la Rudyng
- in Saggelorð
- Sheephays
- Smalemede
- the South Down
- ( tithing of ) Southover
- Staying Cross
- Sticklands
- ( Weymouth ) Townsend
- Wadorns Lands
- the Way
- atte Welle
- Attewere
- Westfeld
- fram þare west Sæ
- Wheat Field
- Whytes