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.