English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Peyton Hall

Early-attested site in the Parish of Manuden

Historical Forms

  • Pachen Hou 1086 DB
  • Pakenho(o) 1254 FF 1423 FF
  • Hall 1538 ib
  • Paukenho 1285 Ass
  • Pakenhall alias Pakenhohall t.Eliz ChancP
  • Pakenho alias Pakenho Hall alias Pakenhall alias Patenhall t.Eliz ChancP 1607 EAix

Etymology

Peyton Hall is Pachen Hou 1086 DB, Pakenho (o )1254 FF, 1423FF , (Hall ) 1538 ib., Paukenho 1285Ass (p), Pakenhall alias Pakenhohall t. Eliz ChancP, Pakenho alias Pakenho Hall alias Pakenhall alias Patenhall t. Eliz ChancP, 1607 EA ix. 'Paca 's ridge,' v. hoh and cf. Pakenham (Sf), Packington (Wa) and Paxford (PN Wo 100). For the interchange of k and t cf. Likeley Wood supra 313, and v. PN BedsHu 6–7.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement