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.

Piggotts

Early-attested site in the Parish of Winchendon

Historical Forms

  • Pickets 1826 B

Etymology

This farm-name is manorial in origin and probably takes its name from the family of that Robert Pycot who was a juror in Ixhill Hundred, just across the parish-border, in 1302 (FA).

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site