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.

Piercil End

Early-attested site in the Parish of Barston

Etymology

Piercil End. Cf. Percelygrove 1332FF , Perselegrove 1336 Cl, Pereshel , Peershall , Peerslane end , Peresholl math , Perseley bedde 1540AOMB , Pearceal End c. 1840TA . For math cf. Math Meadow (TA ) in this parish and Balshall, Temple, Chadwick and Hospital Math as names of meadows (Dugdale, ed. Thomas, i, 967). math denotes a 'mowing,' as in aftermath .

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement