English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Withernwick

Major Settlement in the Parish of Withernwick

Historical Forms

  • Withforneuuinc, Widforneuuinc, Witforneuuinc, Widforneuuic 1086 DB
  • Wifornewic 1115,1160–2 YCh1304,1307
  • Widornewic 1154–80 YCh1397
  • Wytornewyk 13th Meaux
  • Wytornwyk 1279–81 QW
  • Withornwik, Wythornwik, Wythornwic, Wythornwyk 1190 YCh 13th BM 1201 FF 1494 FF
  • Wytthornwik 1401 YI
  • Withornewik, Wythornewik, Wythornewyk 13th Meaux t.Hy3 BM 1521 Test
  • Wethornwik c.1265 KF
  • Withernwyk 1316 NomVill
  • Wethurwik 1512 FF
  • Wetherwicke, Wetherwyk 1526,1546 FF
  • Wyderwike 1542 NCWills
  • Wethernewyk als. Wetherwyk 1568 FF
  • Withrinwick, Watheringwick 1600,1606 FF

Etymology

v. Withernsea supra 26. 'Dairy-farm belonging to a lost Withthorn ,' v. wic . The spellings Witforne -, Wiforne - represent the not uncommon change of th to f .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site