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Survey of English Place-Names

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Sunderlandwick

Major Settlement in the Parish of Hutton Cranswick

Historical Forms

  • Sundreslanwic 1086 DB
  • Sundrelanuuic 1086 DB
  • Sundrelanwik 1387 BM
  • Sunderlandwic(k), Sunderlandwik, Sunderlandwyk(e) 1120–41 MaryR late12th Nunkeel 1652 Deposition
  • Sundirlandwic(k) 1366 FF
  • Sundarlandawic 1156–7 YCh354
  • Sunderlandewich, Sunderlandewik 1161–75 YCh681 1280 Ass
  • Sunderlangwyc, Sunderlangwyk(e) 1161–75 RegAlb 1235–49 Melsa 1286 Baildon
  • Sundlangwik (sic) 1242–3 Fees
  • Sunderlanwik c.1200 Gilbert
  • Sundrelamwik (sic) 1342 SR

Etymology

'Dairy-farm on a separated piece of land,' v. sundorland , wic .The reason for describing the place as 'separated land' is not known.

Places in the same Parish