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.

Buddleswick

Other OS name in the Parish of Thelbridge

Historical Forms

  • Botheleswyk 1317 Ass
  • Buddlesweeke 1730 FF

Etymology

is Botheleswyk 1317Ass , Buddlesweeke 1730FF . v. wic . Probably “ the wic attached to ( a lost ) Budleigh . ” For the first element , v. s. n. Budleigh infra 484 .