Pegglesworth
Early-attested site in the Parish of Dowdeswell
Historical Forms
- wæcgleswyrðe (sic for Pæcgleswyrðe) 981 KCD631
- Peclesurde 1086 DB
- Pecleswurdin 1221 Ass
- Pecleswurth 1248 ib
- Pechelesworth 1182 RBB
- Pekeleswrd 1221 Ass
- Pekelesworth 1287 FF 1362,1433 FF
- Pekelisworthe 1535 VE
- Pekilswoorth 1559 ADv
- Pecklesworth 1648 Rec
- Petheswrth (sic) 1287 QW
- Pecchesworth 1299 RBB
- Pegkeleswrth' 1287 Ass
- Peg(e)lesworth, Pegglesworth 1327 SR 1591 ADv 1608 FF
- Pettelesworthe 1354 Inq
Etymology
'Peccel's enclosure', v. worð , the single spelling in -wurdin being the Merc derivative worðign . The pers.n. is OE Peccel , a form of Pæccel suggested for Patchway (Sx 309) and Paglesham (Ess 189).We should, of course, have expected a palatalised form Pech - from this pers.n. (as we have in fact in Patchway), but non-palatalised forms occur as in Paglesham, which also has the common voicing of -k (l )- (cf. Daglingworth 69supra for a similar voicing of -k (l )-).A shortened form of an OE pers.n. like Peohtel , a diminutive of some such name as Peohtgils , Peohthelm , etc. which Ekwall assumes for Peckleton (Lei), would avoid some of the phonological as well as the etymological problems of OE Peccel .