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.

East Butterwick

Major Settlement in the Parish of East Butterwick

Historical Forms

  • Butrewic 1086 DB Hy2 Gilb 1409 ChancR 1208
  • Butrewyk 1293 FF 1303 Pat
  • Buterewich' 1186,1188,1190 P
  • Buterwic (super Trentam) 1204 ChR 1219 Ass 1221 Cur 1266 Pat e14 ADii
  • Buterwik (super Trentam) 1272 Ass 1279 Orig
  • Buterwyk 1278 Cl 1298 Ass 1309,1314 Pat 1389 Misc
  • Buttrewyck (super Trentam) c1189 Selby e14 Ipm 1297
  • Buttrewyk 1301,1317 Cl 1345 Pat
  • Butterwyck' (super Trentam) c1189 Selby e14 Ipm 1314
  • Butterwyk(') e13 Selby e14 Ch 1271 RH 1276 QW 1281 AD 1430
  • Butterwych c1200 Gilb 1409
  • Butterwic' 1223 RAii
  • Butterwik(') 1266 Pat 1279 Fine 1314 Selby
  • Butterwyke 1327 SR 1404 Cl 1429 Hall 1526 Sub 1535 VEiv
  • Butterwick 1551,1560 Pat
  • Boterwyk 1189 Selby e14 Ipm 1296 Fine 1312 Pat 1322 Banco 1328 Pat 1348,1364 FA 1402
  • Boterwyke 1293 Abbr 1312 Ipm 1399 Cl
  • Boterwyc John AddCh
  • Boterwike 1275 RH
  • Boterwik 1316 FA 1392 Rental
  • Botrewycke (super Trent) 1204 Selby e14
  • Botrewich 1208 P
  • Botrewic 1265 Misc
  • Botrewyk 1342 Cl
  • Estbuterwyk(') 1282 FF 1288 Ass 1415 Pat
  • Estbutterwike 1295 ChronPetro
  • Estbutterwyk 1360 Peace 1502,1503 Ipm
  • Estbutterwyke 1547 Pat
  • Est Butterwyke 1536–37 Dugdvi 1544 LPii
  • Est Butterwike 1563 Pat
  • Eastbutterwyke 1573 Hall
  • E. Butterwick 1576 Saxton
  • Est Boterwyk 1296 Ipm
  • Estboterwyke 1416 Cl

Etymology

For convenience forms without an affix are assembled together since for the most part there is no evidence to indicate whether they refer to East Butterwick or West Butterwick.

'The farmstead well-known for butter', 'butter farm', v. butere , wīc .It is East in relation to West Butterwick on the opposite bank of the R. Trent in Axholme.