Bastwick
Major Settlement in the Parish of Repps with Bastwick
Historical Forms
- Bastwic 1044–7 (13 Sawyer 1055) KCD 785
- Bastuwic, Bastuic, Bastwic 1086 DB
- Bastwic 1202,1234 FF 1209 Ass 1226 Cl
- Bastwich 1181,1186 P 1212 Fees
- Bastewic 1226 Pat
- Baswic 1247 FF
- Bastwik(e) 1254–75 Val 1286 Ass 1547 Pat
- Bastwyk 1279 BM 1311to1373 FF 1316 FA 1339 Cl 1394 Pat
- Bastwyke 1269 Ass
- Bastewyk 1450 AD 1464 Past 1467–72 ECP 1468 Bodl
- Flegbastewyk 1498 Pat
Etymology
This name is formally identical with Woodbastwick in Walsham Hundred, v. bæst , wīc . Ekwall suggests either the meaning 'farm where bast was got' or, since OE bæst probably also had the sense 'lime-tree' (to be compared with LG bast ), 'wīc by the lime-trees' (DEPN). The church of Bastwick was abandoned in the early 17th cent. and the parish combined with Repps (EAA 51: 52). Blomefield says that Bastwick church was a chapel of Repps, both being dedicated to St Peter. The chapel was in ruins as early as 1618 (Blomefield XI182). Only the tower remains (Pevsner 84). Cf. Steeple Close 1839 (a) infra .