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.

The Pills

Early-attested site in the Parish of Filkins

Etymology

The Pills. In Archæologia 37 (1857), p. 145, there is a reference to a spring in this neighbourhood called Ewelme Pill . Ewelme (for which there is an early form 1254 Cl, “abbas de Bruera…heremitagii sui del le Euuelme in Whiccheuuode”) is from OE  ǣw(i)elm, 'river- spring' (cf. the parish name Ewelme 126–7) and Pill is from OE  pyll, used in place-names of a small stream.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement