Collett's Green
Early-attested site in the Parish of Powick
Historical Forms
- Collicke 17th Wills
- Cholic 1820 G
Etymology
This place presents difficulties of identification. We have numerous references to a lost Colewick (supra 91) which, on the whole of the evidence, would seem to have been in the parish of St John's in Bedwardine, the most definite passage being one in which, in the Register of Worcester Priory, we hear of the monks holding land at Colewyk . On the other hand, in the Survey of Wick Episcopi, mention is made of a campus versus Colewyke (RBB ), then of a Homme and then of Colewyke Homfeld . As we have a place Collicke or Cholic just across the river it is difficult to believe that they have no connexion, but it is impossible to make a definite choice between the two difficulties, on the one hand of believing in the existence so close together of two places of the same name, on the other of believing that Worcester Priory could hold pasturage in a Westminster manor.Another possibility is that a migrant from Colewick may have settled in Powick and given his name to the estate. The name of the place means 'Cola's dairy-farm,' v. wic . The form is probably pseudo-manorial and for the final -ett we may compare the history of Collett (PN Bk 141).