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.

Pitville

Early-attested site in the Parish of Cheltenham

Historical Forms

  • Pitt ville (Spa) 1830 M
  • Pittesbrech Hy6 Rent
  • Pits style 1605 Comm

Etymology

Pitville, Pitt ville (Spa )1830 M, is an early 19th-century suburb near the spa or medicinal well here, named after Joseph Pitt, M.P., who in the early years of the 19th century developed it after the enclosures of 1806 (cf. H. P. R. Finberg, Gloucestershire (London, 1955), 89). Older local f.ns. included Pittesbrech Hy 6Rent , Pits style 1605Comm , from the surname Pitt .