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.

Purton

Early-attested site in the Parish of Lydney

Historical Forms

  • Periton(e), Peritune 1086 DB 1187 RBE 1190 P 1270 For
  • Piritun, Piriton(e), Pyriton(e) 1200 Cur 1248 Ass 1270 For 1284 Ipm 1419 IpmR
  • Perton' 1202 Cur
  • Puriton, Puryton 1268 Ipm 1330 FF
  • Pirton(e), Pyrton(e) c.1275,c.1340 For 1368 GR421 1445 BledCt 1642 Comm
  • Peryngton 1461,1466 Pat
  • Purton 1662 Comm

Etymology

'Pear-tree farmstead' or 'pear orchard', v. pirige , tūn , and cf. Pirton (ii, 121) and Purton (ii, 235supra ), which is on the opposite side of the Severn.