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Piff's Elm

Other OS name in the Parish of Elmstone Hardwicke

Historical Forms

  • Pifts Elm 1777 M
  • Piffe 1765 PR 1787 ib
  • Piffe 1570,1574 PR

Etymology

, 1830 M , Pifts Elm 1777 M , named from the local family of Piff ( cf. Richard and William Piffe 1765 PR 13, 44,1787 ib 3, iii of Elmstone Hardwicke, William and Richard Piffe 1570, 1574 PR 3, 78 of Bishop 's Cleeve , etc . ) .

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