Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Pickering's O' the Boat 1831 Bry 1841 TAMap153

• Pickerings of the Boat, Pickering's Boat 1780 EnclA

Etymology

1860 White , Pickering 's O ' the Boat 1831Bry, 1841TAMap 153, Pickerings of the Boat , Pickering 's Boat 1780EnclA , cf. Pickering 's Intack 1780ib , Pickerings Lot 1839TA , and Pickering's Bridge & Pickering's Cut 2114 , from the surname Pickering and bāt , inntak , hlot , brycg and cut . There was a ferry here .