Pentlow
Major Settlement in the Parish of Pentlow
Historical Forms
- (at) Pentelawe c.1045 ASWills 14th
- Pentelauuā 1086 DB
- Pentelawe 11th LibEl 12th FF 1199–1247 SR 1238 Ass 1255
- Pentelewe 1254 Ass
- Pentelagh' 1254 FF
- Pentelowe 1261 1323,1334 Londin 1358 Ipm
- Penteleg Magna 1371 BM
- Pantelawe 1251 Cl 1254 Ass
- Pantlow 1594 N
- Pendelowe 1254 Ass
- Pontelowe 1285 Ass 1358 Cl
Etymology
This is a difficult name. The first part of the name is reminiscent of Panfield supra 448–9 and it may be that Ekwall is right in his tentative suggestion (RN 319–20) that the river Stour (or its valley) was once known as Pænte in the same way that the Blackwater was. The only other similar names that have been noted are Pentney (Nf)Penteleia DB, Pateneia (sic)1195 BM, Paunteneye 1293 Pat and pentan mæde in a Devon charter printed in Transactions of the Devon Association lxi, 250 ff. The site of the latter is unknown. As the names contain the elements eg and mæd , the first element might well again be the river- name Pænte found in Panfield. The name may therefore mean 'hill by the Pant river.'