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.

Pett

Major Settlement in the Parish of Pett

Historical Forms

  • Ivet (sic) 1086 DB
  • Pett(e) 1195 FF 1535 VE
  • Pettes 1249 FF
  • Putt(e) 1287 FF 1288 Ass 1316 FA 1332 SR
  • Potte 1386,1421 IpmR
  • Pytte 1443 Cicestr

Etymology

v. pytt . The reference must be to some well or pit no longer known, for the village is on a hill and not in a hollow.

Places in the same Parish