Bullicks Wood
Early-attested site in the Parish of Lowick
Historical Forms
- Bulex c.1220 For 1252 Seld13
- Bolex 1286 For 1315 Fine 1345 For
- Bolax 1245,1247 Seld13 1258,1283 Cl 1314 Ipm
- Bulax 1249 Seld13 1254 For 1272 Seld13 1337 For
- Boleax c.1300 For t.Ed1 PeterbA
- Bolehax 1290 Ipm
- Bolleax 1326 Cl
- Bollax 1347 Ipm
- Bullwick's Wood 1771 EnclA
Etymology
There can be little doubt that the second element in this name is the OE word *etsce , *ætsce , discussed under Cleeve Axe (PN Sx 511). One sense of that word (ME axe , exe ) seems to be 'pasture.' The first element is OE bula , 'bull,' and the whole name would mean 'bull pasture.' The second element may repeat itself in Exhawe (1249For ) which was immediately adjacent, and perhaps in Excellent supra 162. Further examples of this element have now been noted in Surrey, viz. Mapledrake in Ewhurst, Mapeldresshe 1241Ass (p), Holdemabiltrix , Olde Mapuldriks 1436, 1524 (SrRecSoc xxxii, 59–60), in which it is compounded with the tree-name mapuldor , and possibly in Longrethenex (1370 AD ii), a field-name in Camberwell.