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.

Purton

Major Settlement in the Parish of Purton

Historical Forms

  • Perytun 796 BCS279 14th
  • Peritun 854 14th ib
  • Peryton(a) 1156 RegMalm 1282 Ipm
  • Pereton 1195 P
  • Pertune 1211 RBE
  • Puriton(e), Puritona 796 BCS279A 14th Fees 1242 SR 1332
  • Purtun 1247 Cl
  • Puryton 1289 Ass 1428 FA
  • Puryngton 1327 Ipm
  • Piritune 1065 KCD817 14th
  • Piritone 1086 DB 1275 RH
  • Piritone juxta Creckelade 1304 Ass
  • Pyryton 1281 QW 1299 BM t.Ed3 For
  • Pyriton 1291 Ipm
  • Piryton Keynes 1375 Pat
  • Pyryton al. Puryton 1430 FF
  • Perinton c.1250 Rental
  • Perynton 1349 FF
  • Pyrinton 1268 Ass
  • Pyrynton 1281 ib
  • Pirynton 1289 ib
  • Purynton 1297 Ipm
  • Pyreton 1298 Pat 1304 FF
  • Pyrton al. Puryton 1580 ib
  • æt Piertean 796 (14th) BCS 279

Etymology

'Pear-tree farm,' v. pirige , tun . An earlier form of the name is æt Piergean , et Pirigean , as recorded respectively in RegMalm (i, 291) and WMP (388), i.e. '(at the) pear tree.' This appears in a corrupt form in æt Piertean 796 (14th) BCS 279. Subsequently tun was added, sometimes to the nom. form pirige , sometimes to the oblique case-form pirigean . John Keynys held the manor in 1428 (FA).