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.

Pyrton Hundred

Hundred in the County of Oxfordshire

Historical Forms

  • Peritone 1086 DB 1428 FA
  • Pyriton 1181–2 P
  • Piriton' 1275–6 RH
  • Pyritone 1300 Ipm
  • Piriton 1316 FA
  • Puritona 1219 Fees
  • Puryton' 1275–6 RH
  • Peruiton 1224 Cl
  • Perinton' 1247 Fees
  • Pirtton 1278–9 RH

Etymology

v. Pyrton infra 86.