Survey of English Place-Names

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).