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Kilnwick Percy

Major Settlement in the Parish of Kilnwick Percy

Historical Forms

  • Chelingewic, Chileuuic, Chilleuuinc 1086 DB
  • Kyllyngwyc(h), Kyllyngwyk(e), Killyngwyc(h) 12th YD 1160–5 RegAlb 1208 FF 1301 Ebor
  • Kyllyngwyc(h) Perci 1303 KF
  • Kyllyngwyc(h) juxta Pokelington 1385 YD
  • Kylingwic early13th Warter
  • Killingewic, Killingewik 1218 FF 1246 Ass 1300 Ch
  • Kiuillinwic (sic) 1231 FF
  • Kylnewyke Parcy 1519 FF
  • Kyl(l)wike Perseye 1539 NCWills
  • Kyl(l)wike Percy 1545 FF

Etymology

'Dairy-farm of Cylla or of Cylla and his people,' v. ing , wic and cf. Nunkeeling supra 79. If the spelling Kiuillin - is in any way reliable we might think of an OE  Cyfel , an unrecorded diminutive of Cufa (Redin 90), with early assimilation of fl to ll . An unmutated variety of this name, Cufela , is found in Cuttinglye Wood(PN Sx 281) and Collendean (PN Sr 293). This place was associated with the Percy family from the 12th century (cf. YCh 749).

Places in the same Parish

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