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Survey of English Place-Names

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Pilling Ho & Pilling Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Emley

Historical Forms

  • Far Pilling, Pilling Knowle & Pilling Lane 1842 TA

Etymology

, Far Pilling , Pilling Knowle & Pilling Lane 1842TA , probably a derivative of dial . pill ' to bark timber, to graze land closely ' ( EDD ) .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site