Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• foresta de Pecco, foresta de Pecko 1223 ClR 1232 Cl 1233 Lib

• foresta de Peck 1277 Ch

• foresta de Haut Peck 1345 LansdCh

• foreste del Peek 1383 Gaunt

• Peake Forest 1577 Saxton

Etymology

Peak Forest formerly covered a much greater area than the modern parish; the bounds are quoted Hy 3, 1285For but cannot be traced with exactness. It was of course a medieval hunting-forest and not a continuous wooded area.