Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Pol 1086 DB

• Pulle 13 AddCh 13 Sheaf 1580 Court 1288 ChRR 1476

• campus de Pull' 1331 ChFor

• Pulle bridge 1506 Sheaf

• Polle 1294 Ipm c.1325 Chol

• Pullee 1295 Cre

• Pole iuxta Wicum Malbanum 1474 Orm2

• Pole 1542 Plea 1562 ChRR

• Poole 1559 ChRR 1560 Chol

• Pool 1621 Orm2 1656

• Poole Bridge 1621 Sheaf

• Poole Hall & Poole Old Hall 1831 Bry

• Pool Bridge 1831 Bry

• Pool Hall & Pool Hall Farm 1842 OS

• Pulles 1544 Plea, 1559 Orm2

• Pooles 1544 AD

• three townships of the names of the Pooles 1621 (1656) Orm2 iii 293

Etymology

'The pool', from pōl1 and pull . The form Pullee 1295 may contain a suffixed ēa 'a stream', or lēah 'a wood, a clearing', but it might be a mistake for Pulles . The several manors in Poole township are collectively known as Pulles 1544 Plea, 1559 Orm2, Pooles 1544 AD, three townships of the names of the Pooles 1621 (1656) Orm2 iii293, cf. Barrets -Poole , Warpoole and White -Poole infra . The name alludes to some part of the stream 110–632550 to 110–663558 which traverses the township, or to a pool near it, cf. Pulewalle infra .