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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.

Pyewipe

Other OS name in the Parish of Scothern

Etymology

, possibly an elliptical formation with the sense ' placefrequented by the lapwing ' , though we might also have to reckon with some figurative or associative use of the dialect name of the lapwing , pie-wipe , for which see EDD , s.v. peesweep .