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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.

Pitty Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Wirksworth

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) , cf. Pithey 1415DuLaMB , Pithay 1492CPG , Pyttehey 1508AD , the Pittie 1640CPG , ' enclosure near a pit or hollow ' , v. pytt , (ge)hæg .