Pixham
Early-attested site in the Parish of Powick
Historical Forms
- Picresham, Pykresham c.1086 EveA 1190 SR 1275
- Pikeresham, Pykeresham 1221 Ass 1243 FF 1255 Ass 1294
- Pykereshamm 1276 RH
- Pyxam, Pixham 1535 VE 1549 Pat
- Pukesham 1576 Wills
Etymology
This place-name, certainly in its first element, and possibly in its second also, is a duplicate of the Picereshamm (KCD 289), Picereshomm (ib. 1368) which Mr C. A. Seyler has identified as a meadow still named Pickersom, on the Avon in Littleton, v. infra 266. Searle (p. 571) suggests a pers. name Pichere , but there is no authority for such a compound. More probably it is a pers. name Pīcer , an r -derivative of the OE pers. name Pīc , which we have good grounds for assuming. This name is found in Pickering (Y) and further notice of the likelihood of such names will be found in PN Bk 110 s. n. Doddershall . The name is therefore probably either Picer's hamm or his ham . It is to be regretted that we have no earlier forms than Pyckersled (VCH iv. 123 n. 27) for Pickersleigh in Great Malvern (Wo) which seems to contain the same first element. v. Introd. xxiii.