Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Plegwic, Plegwik, Plegwyc, Plegwyk(e) 13 YDvii 1246 Ass30d 1252 FF 1285,1327 WCR

• Plegewyc 1252 YDx

• Plegewykes 1315 WCR

• Pleggewyk 1284 WCR 1310 Surv

• Pleghwyk 1379 PT

• Pledwick(e), Pledweycke, Pledwyk, Pledwike 1479 DodsN 16 YDvii 1534 FF 1535 VE 1709 WMB

Etymology

This is probably a compound of OE  plega 'play, sports, game' and wīc 'a hamlet, a dependent farmstead, a building', corresponding to OE  pleg-stede or pleg-stōw 'sport place, place where games were held'. But the OE  pers.n. Plecga is also possible, but less likely because of the absence of medial -e - in most of the earlier spellings.In either case medial -g - is due to ON influence. The later Pled - is merely a substitution for Pleg -.