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Pulloxhill

Major Settlement in the Parish of Pulloxhill

Historical Forms

  • Polochessele 1086 DB
  • Pollokeshill 1205 FF 1287 Ass
  • Pollukeshull 1214 Abbr
  • Pulocheshella Hy3 Ch 1315
  • Bulluckeshulle 1227 Ass
  • Pollokeshull 1228,1236 FF 1276,1287 Ass 1297 SR 1337 Ipm
  • Pullokeshull 1242 Fees890 1260,1270 FF 1286 Dunst 1313 BM 1323 Ch 1337 Ipm 1346 FA 1390–2 CS
  • Bolokeshill 1276 Ass
  • Pullukeshull 1286 Dunst
  • Poleshill 1287 Ass
  • Pullokeshill 1287 Ass
  • Pollekeshull 1337 Ipm
  • Pollexhulle, Polloxhulle 1428 FA
  • Polluxhull 1526 LS
  • Poloxhill 1577 ADiii
  • Pullockshill Eliz ChancP

Etymology

One cannot get further with this name than Skeat's suggestion that the first element is a lost pers. name Pulloc , closely allied to ModE  Pollock . The Pollok - forms may indeed contain that name or it may be that they are originally Anglo-Norman spellings with o for u , which for a time affected the pronunciation. Hence, 'Pulloc's hill,' v. hyll . Cf. Poulston (D), DB Polochestona .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site