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.

Poolfields

Early-attested site in the Parish of Wichenford

Historical Forms

  • Pull, pulles heofod (sic) 779 BCS233 11th
  • terra de Pulle 1240 WoP
  • la Pulle 1275 SR
  • Poole Field 1649 Surv

Etymology

The pull is the stream which forms the boundary of Doddenham and Wichenford parish and afterwards of Broadwas and Wichenford. It is probably the same as the Kaderapull of BCS 319, in the bounds of Wick which then seems to have included Cotheridge, Wichenford, Little Witley and Holt.