Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Ousteuuic 1086 DB

• Oust(e)wic, Oust(e)wik, Oust(e)wyk(e) 1202-8 Ass 1210 P 1246 Ass39 1293 QW 1328 Banco

• Aust(e)wic, Aust(e)wyc, Aust(e)wik(e), Aust(e)wyk(e) 12 Font c.1150 Yorke 1198 Fount 1219 Ass6d 1224 Font 1246 FF 1672 Dep

• Aust(e)wyk(e) als. Astwicke 1623 FF

• Austick 1732 PRArn

• Ostwic, Ostwike 1208 P 1301 YI

• Owstwic(ke) 1246 FF 1560 WillY

• Owestweike 1635 ib

• Awst(e)weke, Awst(e)wick 1587 FF

• Awst(e)wick als. Astwick 1605 ib

• Astwick 1622 FF 1659 WillS 1677 PRGis

• Astick 1729 PRBnt

Etymology

'East dairy-farm', v. austr (which may have replaced an earlier OE  ēast), wīc , probably so called from its position to the east of Clapham. On the development of Aust - to Ast - cf. Phonol. § 8.