Pickwell
Early-attested site in the Parish of Georgeham
Historical Forms
- Pediccheswella 1086 DB(Exon)
- Wedicheswelle
- Pido(c)keswell 1207 PatR 1230 P
- Pidekeswell 1219 Ass
- Pidekewill' 1242 Fees772 1249 FF
- Pydikeswyll 1244 Ass
- Pydekewill' 1303 FA
- Pydikwell 1326 Ipm
- Pyckewyll al. Pydyckswell 1560 Deed
- Paddikkeswell 1285 FA
Etymology
Ekwall (PN La 62 s. n. Pigsden) suggests that in Pickwell we have a pers. name which is a diminutive of OE Piuda . That should give us some ME forms in Pud -. Perhaps we ought rather therefore to assume a diminutive Piddic , of uncertain origin. Hence, 'Piddic 's spring,' v. wielle . The form in the Exchequer DB shows the common confusion of the OE symbols for p and w . Cf. Pilton and Dewdon infra 54, 527.