Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Tocvi 1086 DB

• Tocwid, Tocwyd 1109–35 Nost127 1121 Tockw 1185–1210 YChx e.13 Nost129 13 Font 1215 ChR 1305 YI

• Tockwid a.1114 Dugdvi

• Tocwyd(e) 1250–81 Tockw

• Toc(k)wit, Toc(k)wyt a.1114,1118–50,1150–1200 Tockw 1208 FF

• Tokwic, Tocwic, Tocwik 1119–35 Nost7d 1185–1210 YChx 1214 Abbr 1236–47 YChx 1259 Ass

• Tockwic 1121–7 YCh1428

• Tockewik 1246 Ass23

• Tokwith, Toc(k)with, Toc(k)wyth 1121–7 YCh 1189 Nost4d 1202–8 Ass Hy3 Heal80d 1255 YI 1260 FF 1536 MinAcct

• Tochwith 1216 Nost5d

• Tocwicd, Tocwyz 1249 Ch

• Tokewith, Tokewyth 1254 Heal42 1289 Baild 1303 Aid

• Tockewyht 1280 Ch

• Tokkewyth 1331 Ass5d

• Toketh 1563 FF

• Tocqueth 1575 WillY

Etymology

'Toki's wood', v. viðr . The first el. is the ODan  pers.n. Toki , OSwed  Toke ; this pers.n. appears in OWScand  as Tóki but is thought by Lind to be a loan there from ODan  Toki ; it is common in ME sources (cf. NP 142ff, Feilitzen 385). The form of the second el. varies, as in Skipwith YE 263, between -wic (-wik ) and -with (-wid ); Skipwith, where the -wic , -wik spellings are numerous, is originally OE  scēap -wīc , but in Tockwith the -wic , -wik spellings are comparatively rare and are to be explained as scribal variants based on an original misreading of -t as -c . The spellings -wit and -wid are AN  for -with .