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Pigs Moor Coppice

Other OS name in the Parish of Hooke

Historical Forms

  • Pigs (Aldermoor) 1839 TA

Etymology

, Pigs (Aldermoor )1839TA ; although this is close to HorseMoor Coppice supra , the first el . is no doubt a surname here , cf. the Simon Pyg ( ' ) taxed in Loders par . in 1327, 1332 SR and the John Porcar ' ( = Latin porcarius ' swineherd ' ) taxed in Hooke itself in 1332 ib ( the surname Pyg is in any case probably metonymic for pig-herd , cf. the surname Pyghurde 1327 in Thuresson 68 ) .