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.

Pye Mill

Early-attested site in the Parish of Blockley

Historical Forms

  • Peomull 1383 VCHiii.271

Etymology

There is an OE  pēo , pīe , 'insect,' and it is just possible that in this name we have, as so often is the case, a mill-name of the nickname type, but no certainty is possible.