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.

Pensax

Major Settlement in the Parish of Pensax

Historical Forms

  • Pensaxan 11th Heming
  • Pensex 1231 AnnMon 1303 WoP 1240 Pat 1355
  • Pen(e)sey 1255 Wigorn 1275 SR
  • Pensax 1327 SR

Etymology

This name must remain an unsolved riddle. The hludi læge of the bounds of an enlarged Pensax in Heming (246) survives in a pers. name Lodeleye found in Stockton-on-Teme (1275 SR).

Places in the same Parish