Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Pennell Yate 1693 Chol

• Pimmel Brow(e) 1729,1785 Chol

• the Pennell Gate 1731 Chol

• the Pinil Brow 1766 Chol

• Pemmell Gate 1773 Chol

• Pymmefeld 1280–90 Chol

• campus quod Pymme le parsun quondam tenuit 1281 ib

Etymology

Pinmill Brow (a road, 109–520773), Pennell Yate 1693Chol , Pimmel Brow (e )1729, 1785Chol , the Pennell Gate 1731Chol , the Pinil Brow 1766Chol , Pemmell Gate 1773Chol , cf. Pimhill Flatt 1785ib , Pimmell Buts 1844TA , v. geat 'a gateway' (influenced by gata 'a road'), brū 'a brow, the ascent of a hill', flat , butte , with the p.n. Pymmewalle in Pymmewallesyche 1350Chol (v. sīc 'a watercourse') from the ME  pers.n. Pymme (Reaney s.n. Pim ), and wælla 'a spring, a well'.Perhaps the same man, an unrecorded incumbent of Frodsham, appears in Pymmefeld 1280–90Chol , campus quod Pymme le parsun quondam tenuit 1281ib , v. feld , cf. Orm2 ii57.