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.
Survey of English place-names
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Pentridge
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Peaked
Peaked
Other OS name in the Parish of Pentridge
Etymology
Post , v.
peked
' pointed ' ,
post
.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Bokerly Ditch
Chettle Head Copse
Grim's Ditch
Other OS name
Bokerly Down & Bokerly Fm
Bowling Green Lane
Cobley Fm
Earthpits Lane
Kitt's Grove
Morgan's Lane
Penbury-Knoll
Pentridge Down, Pentridge Fm, & Pentridge Hill
Rectory
St Rumbold's Church
Shaftesbury Arms (P.H.)
Shaftsbury Copse(lost)
Whitey Top
Woodyates Ho
Major Settlement
Pentridge