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.

Piggins Cl

Field in the Parish of Scraptoft

Historical Forms

  • 1750 Nichols

Etymology

Piggins Cl (v. croft) (either with the surn. Pigeon or with pejon, alluding to a pigeon - house)