Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Uvetshay, Oveyhotes haye 13th DeedsHartley

• Ovyhetteshay 14th ib

• Ǫuy(e)ot(t)eshay 1310 Ipm 1314 ib

• Ovy(e)teshay(e) 1319 Banco 1323 Ass

• Oveatyshay 1482 Banco

• Ovyoteshay(e), Ovioteshay(e) 1322 Banco 1323 Ass 1327 SR 1331 FF 1368 Banco

• Evetteshay(es), Evot(t)eshay(es) 1473 Blithfield 1518 Blithfield 1563 FF

• Evethayes 1529 Blymhill

• Evetts heyes als Ovetts heyes 1613 Blymhill

• Uvetshay 1565 Blymhill

• Ovetts hay 1604 FF

• Yvetts hay 1585 Blymhill

• Ivittshay, Ivettshay 17th DeedsHartley

• Ivetsey 1695 Morden 1721,1726 WestonunderLizard 1755 Bowen 1833 O

Etymology

'Wulfgeat's enclosure', v. (ge)hæg. OE  Wulfgeat had by DB become Ulu (u )iet , Ulviet , v. VCH iv DB 59, 60, 65, 157; note Sir F. Stenton's observation in Dane cxiv, 'The form Ouiet , recorded in a charter relating to the Isle of Axholme, is interesting as an example of the rare name Ufegeat , a late development of the OE  name Wulfgeat '. Ivetsey lay partly in Lapley and partly in Blymhill, Ivetsey Bank being in the former and Ivetsey Fm in the latter; for convenience the name is treated as a whole here.