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.

Pepperclose Trees

Other OS name in the Parish of Wool

Etymology

, Pepper Close Coppice , Pepper Close Trees 1839 probably pepper with reference to soil characteristics , tinkers , peppercorn rent , or the crop itself , but the surname Pepper is also possible , cf. John Piperwhit de Wolle 1377Ass ( ' pepper-white ' ) .