Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Picheburne 1086 DB

• Pikeburn(e), Pykeburn(e) 1180–5 YChviii 1202,1208 FF 1219 Ass16d 1226 FF 1243 Fees 1246 Ass30d 1418 YDvi

• Pikebourne 1248 YI

• Pikeborne 1304 YI

• Pickeburn(e), Pyckeburn(e) 13 Taylor 1276 RH 1303 Aid

• Pickebourn 1315 Pat

• Picburne 1279 YI

• Pickburn(e) 1316 Vill 1624 PRBrods

• Pykbourne 1323 MinAcct

• Pykburn 1401 Calv 1413 YI 1476 Pat

• Pigburn(e), Pygburn(e) 1428 FA 1429 YDvi 1483 BM 1499 Ipm 1527 FF 1771 M

• Piggeburne 1572 YDxiii,68

Etymology

'Pike stream', v. pīc 1 (ii), burna . An unrecorded OE  pers.n. Pīca (found in some p.ns.) is also possible, but the obvious solution seems the better. On the voicing of -k - to -g - before -b -, cf. Phonol. § 52.