Peek
Early-attested site in the Parish of Ugborough
Historical Forms
- Pech 1086 DB
- Pek' 1242 Fees796 1336 Ass
- Westpek 1306 Ass
- Peck 1303 FA
- Pyek 1333 SR
- Est Pyk 1382 FF
- Pykedon 1498 Ct
- Pigedone c.1580 DA
Etymology
East Peek and West Peek are two farms adjacent to the hills now called Eastern and Western Beacon. In both cases we have probably an old hill-name from OE pēac , for which v. PN BedsHu s. n. Pegsdon, and Mawer, Problems of PN Study 71.According to Crossing (77) the old people still talk of Picken Hill. This may be a corruption of earlier Peak Down Hill and have itself given rise to the present-day Beacon .
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Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Cheston
- Venn
- Coarsewell
- Bowcombe
- Broadaford
- Turtley
- Cantrell
- Fillham
- Langford Barton
- Ludbrook
- Marridge
- Quickbeam Hill
- Rutt
- Three Barrows Hill
- Witchcombe
- Wrangaton
- Zeaston