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.

Batchwood

Early-attested site in the Parish of St Michaels

Historical Forms

  • Childewik Say 1303 FA
  • Childewikeshaye 1326–35 Gesta
  • Chyldewykessay 1334 FF
  • Childewykehay 1429 Pat
  • Bacheworthe c.1250 StAlbansJ
  • worth 1310 Cl

Etymology

81.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement