-wich town
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Distinguish". A "-wich town" is a settlement in Anglo-Saxon England characterised by extensive artisanal activity and tradeTemplate:Spaced ndashan "emporium". The name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon suffix -Script error: No such module "Lang"., signifying "a dwelling[1] or fortified[2] place".
Such settlements were usually coastal Script error: No such module "Unsubst". and many have left material traces found during excavation.[3]
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As well as -wich, -Script error: No such module "Lang". was the origin of the endings -wyck and -wick,[4] as, for example, in Papplewick, Nottinghamshire.
Four former "-wīc towns" are known in England as the consequence of excavation. Two of theseTemplate:Spaced ndashJorvik (Jorwic) in present-day York and Lundenwic near LondonTemplate:Spaced ndashare waterfront sites, while the other two, Hamwic in Southampton and Gipeswic (Gippeswic) in Ipswich are further inland.[5]
By the eleventh century, the use of -wich in placenames had been extended to include areas associated with salt production. At least nine English towns and cities carry the suffix although only five of them tend to be associated with salt: Droitwich in Worcestershire and the four -wich towns of Middlewich, Nantwich, Northwich and Leftwich in Cheshire.
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- ↑ Simon T. Loseby, "Power and towns in Late Roman Britain and early Anglo-Saxon England" in Gisela Ripoll and Josep M. Gurt, eds., Sedes regiae (ann. 400-800) (Barcelona, 2000), especially p. 356 ff.
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- ↑ R. Hodges, The Anglo-Saxon Achievement: archaeology and the beginnings of English society, 1989:69–104; and, as emporia, C. Scull, "Urban centres in pre-Viking England?" in J. Hines, ed. The Anglo-Saxons from the Migration Period to the Eighth Century: an ethnological perspective, 1997:269-98.
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