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.

Southwick

Early-attested site in the Parish of Tewkesbury

Historical Forms

  • Sudwicham 1086 DB
  • Sudwica 12 Tewk80d
  • Suwik 13 Tewk85
  • Suhtwik 1248 Ass
  • Suthwic 1169 P
  • Suth(e)wik, Suth(e)wyk(e) 1221,1248 Ass 1315 Hopt 1325 FF 1539 et freq
  • Sothewyk(e) 1248 Ass 1327 SR 1367 Hopt
  • South(e)wyke, South(e)wick 1363 FF 1426 IpmR 1710 PR
  • Sowth(e)wick 1509 ADi 1617 Dep
  • Southick 1592 FF

Etymology

'South dairy-farm or dependent farmstead', v. sūð , wīc ; it lies to the south of Tewkesbury.