Twickenham
Major Settlement in the Parish of Twickenham
Historical Forms
- Tuican hom, Tuiccanham 704 BCS111 8th
- Tuicanham, (in) Tuicanhamme 793 BCS265 10th
- Tuuiccanham 941 BCS766 13th 948 c.1250 ib
- Tuuicaham 948 c.1250 ib
- Twikeham 1216 FF
- Twykenham 1279 1301 Ipm 1316 FA
- Twikenham 1291 Tax
- Wickenham 1650 Madge
- Twekynham 1396 FF
- Twyckname 1560 FF
- Twicknem 1651 ParReg(Teddington)
- Twitnam(e) 1644,1721 ParReg(Northolt)
- Twittenham 1698 ib
Etymology
Probably 'Twic (c )a 's hamm.' There is a well-marked bend in the river here. Ekwall (DEPN s. n .) suggests the gen. sg. of a hypothetical OE word *twicce , related to twicene , 'fork or junction of roads or ways.' The meaning would be 'river fork' with reference to its situation at the junction of the Thames and Crane, but the genitival compound 'hamm of the river-fork' seems, however, a very unlikely one.