English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Drungewick

Early-attested site in the Parish of Wisborough Green

Historical Forms

  • Duryngwyk, Duringwyk 1279 Ass
  • Durrengewyk t.Ed1 LibB
  • Duringewike 1338 Ch
  • Duringewicke 1462 SAC29,16
  • Derengewyk 1288 Ass
  • Doringwyk' 1302 RH
  • Dringewyk 1307 Ch
  • Thrungewike 1422 IpmR
  • Drunkewyke 1433 Pens
  • Drongewyke c.1550 SRS16,79
  • Drensweek 1724 B

Etymology

'Farm of the people of Dēora , v. wic , ing . For the shifting of the stress to the second syllable, v. PN Bk 24.