Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Greneforde 1086 DB

• Greneford(e) parva 1254 Val 1291 Tax

• parva Greneford 1294 Ass

• Little Greneford 1386 FF

• Pyryvale 1508 FF

• Pyryvale otherwise Lyttle Greneford 1566 ib

• Peryvale 1524 LP 1564 FF

• Parva Greneford al. Peryvale 1545 Ct

• Perevall ib.

• Perevell 1568 FF

• Perryvale 1637 Recov

• Purevale 1593 N

Etymology

Originally Little Greenford in distinction from Greenford or Great Greenford supra 33. The present name is not found before the beginning of the 16th century and would seem to be a ME  compound of perie , pirie , 'pear tree' (OE  pirige) and vale (from OFr  val ).