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.

Patching Hall

Early-attested site in the Parish of Broomfield

Historical Forms

  • Pacingas, Pacinges 1086 DB
  • Pascinges 1235 Ass
  • Passyng(e)clovill 1270 FF
  • Pecinges 1208 Cur
  • Pac(c)hing(ge), Pac(c)hyng 1235 FF
  • Pac(c)hyng Picot 1238 SR
  • Pac(c)hyng Pyc(h)ot 1272 FF 1294 Ipm
  • Pac(c)hyng Clovill 1303–46 FA
  • Pac(c)hynghalle 1384 Ch
  • Pachingh Clouyle, Pachingh Pikot 1284 FF
  • Pachyn 1295 Cl
  • Patchinge Pigotts 1548 Harl
  • Clovill 1235 FF

Etymology

OE  Pæccingas , 'the settlement of the people of Pæcc (i ),' v. ing .Identical with Patching (PN Sx 248). Picot from the DB undertenant. Cloville from the family of Herbert de Clovill (1235 FF).

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement