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.

Pipstye

Early-attested site in the Parish of Ardingly

Historical Forms

  • Pipestye 1253 Horsfieldii.19
  • Pypestye 1273 Ass
  • Pyppestye 1296 SRS10,104
  • Pippesty 1299 Ipm
  • Puppesti 1299 Cl

Etymology

'Pyppa's path,' v. stig . For this pers. name v. Pepwell (PN Wo 245). Great and Little Pipstye are two fields adjoining Fire Wood Slip (M.S.H.).