Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Pimperlega 1193 P

• Pymperlegh 1321 Ass 1332 SR

• Pymperleys 1502 Ipm

• Pymperleighes lane, Pymperleygh hedge 1568 WMxxix

• Pinperlege 1196 Cur 1198 Abbr 1208 Cur

• Pynperleye 1284 WIpm

Etymology

There can be little doubt that we have here, in the first part of the name, a repetition of the name Pimperne found in Dorset as the name of a village (PN Do 56–7) and probably going back to an old river-name (cf. Ekwall RN 326, DEPN s. n .). There is a small stream here.