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.

Week House

Other OS name in the Parish of Winkleigh

Historical Forms

  • Wyk Tammill 1303 FA
  • Wickehouse, Wekehouse 1592 SR

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Wyk Tammill 1303 FA, Wickehouse , Wekehouse 1592SR . v. wic . Tammill may be a scribal or transcriptional error for Taumill , i.e . ' millby the river Taw . '