Pytchley
Major Settlement in the Parish of Pytchley
Historical Forms
- pihteslea, pihteslea forda 956 BCS943 c.1250
- Pihteslea 1086 DB 1302 Ipm
- Picteslei 1086 DB 1249 Ipm
- Piteslea 1086 DB 1398 Cl
- Pisteslai 1131 P
- Pistesle(e) 1205 Cur 1237 Cl 1284 FA
- Pichtesle 1189 Ch 1332
- Pychte(s)le(g) 1219 FF 1227 Ch 1238 Cl
- Pectesle 1198 Fees
- Pyghtesle 1316 FA 1391 Cl
- Pitchesle 1323 Ipm
- Pitchesleye 1323 Cl
- Peychisle 1372 Moulton
- Pycheley al. Pyghtesley 1544 LP
- Pitchley al. Pixley t.Jas1 ECP
- Pichly 1657 NRSi
- Pichely 1712 Morton
Etymology
'Peoht 's clearing or woodland,' v. leah .