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.

Pittsmoor

Other OS name in the Parish of Kenton

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Putesmor 1330, Puttesmor 1333SR (p) . ' Marshy land in the pitor hollow , ' v. mor . There is a little hollow here by the Kenn river .