Note 190a — APPENDIX.

Sewer is a common local name for a drain, or even a clear running stream. Such a stream, called the Sewer, rises at Well-syke Wood in this parish, and runs into the Witham river, nearly four miles distant, perfectly limpid throughout its course. As to the name Well-syke, “sike” is an old term for a “beck,” or small running stream. “Sykes and meres” are frequently mentioned in old documents connected with land. The word syke is doubtless connected with “soak,” and this wood was so named because the “syke” welled up within a marshy part of it.