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.

Picknill Green

Early-attested site in the Parish of Bexhill

Historical Forms

  • on pican glinde 772 BCS208 c.1300
  • pontem de Piklyndebrugg, Piklingdebrigg 1288 Ass
  • Pykelyngbregge 1430 AOMB56
  • Pykelidbrigge 1455 SAC53,50
  • Pikelidbrigge 1516 LP

Etymology

'Pica's glind .' For the pers. name Pīca , v. Pitchcott (PN Bk 136). For glind , meaning possibly 'enclosure,' v. Glynde supra 352.