Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Oxebruge c.1145 Evesham 1198 Cur

• Oxebric 1208 ib

• Oxebrigg 1235 Ass

• Wixebrug' c.1145 Evesham

• Wyxebrigge 1220 FF 1274,1294 Ass

• Wyxebruge 1294 GDR

• Wixebrigge 1274 Ass 1277 Pat

• Wixebrugg' 1294 Ass

• Wxsebrig' 1198 Cur

• Wxebrig' 1274 Ass

• Uxebrigg(e) 1200 P 1235,1274 Ass 1515 FF

• Uxebrugg(e) 1219 P

• Uxebregge 1230 StPaulsCh

• Uxebrige 1311 Ipm

• Uxebridge 1560 FF

• Woxebruge 1219 FF 1433 FF

• Woxbregge 1310 Ipm

• Woxbrygge 1415 Pat

• Wokesbrygge 1434 PCC

• Woxbridge 1493 FF

• Wuxebr' 1235 Ass

• Wuxebrug(g) 1242 Cl 1294 Ass

• Wuxbrigge 1422 Pat

• Wexebrigg(e) 1274 Ass

• Wexebrugge 1294 Ch

• Wexebregg 1428 FA

• Woxenbrugg 1389 Pat

• Woxenbrugge al. Uxbridge 1398 IpmR

• Wokysbregge 1467 Pat

• Wooxbryge 1547 FF

Etymology

This name must be taken with Uxendon (infra 54) and probably with Waxlow (supra 45). The first element is probably, as suggested by Ekwall (DEPN s. n .), a tribal name Wixan , found in the 7th-century Tribal Hidage (BCS 297). As the three places are all rather far apart it would seem that members of this tribe must have been widely spread over the county. Other members probably settled in the neighbourhood of Whitsun Brook (PN Wo 16). The second element is brycg , 'bridge.' There is an ancient bridge over the Colne here. See further Introd. xiv.