Kepwick
Major Settlement in the Parish of Over Silton
Historical Forms
- Capuic, Chipuic 1086 DB
- Chepewic 1166 P
- Kepwic, Kepuuic, Kepwyche 1202 FF 1208–10 Fees 1234 Guis
- Kepewyk, Kepewick 1224–30 Fees 1240 Riev 1285 KI 1298 Abbr 1301 LS 1348 Baildon
- Keppewic, Keppewyk 1310 Ch 1316 Vill
- Kepyk, Kepec 1451 Test 1505 Sanct
Etymology
On topographical grounds this name cannot reasonably be connected with OE cēap , 'market,' with Scandinavianised initial consonant. A pers. name is far more probable. There is an OSwed p.n. Kæplinge which Hellquist (ON på -inge 86) connects with the pers. name *Kappe assumed by Lundgren-Brate (146) to lie behind certain Swedish p.n.'s. A mutated derivative Kæppi formed from the name would explain the forms of Kepwick.The possibility then is that the name means 'Kæppi's vik' or 'nook in the hills.'