Viking name - "eastern settlement" - east of Clapham

Home of the Austwick Cuckoo - legend that people of Austwick noticed that the cuckoo heralded spring and good weather, so built fence around roosting cuckoo, only to find it gone in the morning - part of long friendy rivaly between Austwick and Clapham

old stone cottages around small green, has remains of market cross,

west of village are cultivation terraces, known as "lynchets", oxen wide terraces, probably medieval