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.

Pickering Vale

Early-attested site in the Parish of Pickering

Historical Forms

  • valle de Pykerynge 1248 Whitby

Etymology

valle de Pykerynge 1248 Whitby

Vale is from OFr  val 'valley' (cf. Rievaulx supra ).