Pignal Inclosure

Pignal Inclosure, Denny Lodge
wood
parish:
county:
coords:
Denny Lodge
Hampshire
SU3104
refce: HANTSLOC.t

old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants LXXII.14

Pignal Enclosure
otherwise: Pigenhull, 1331

refce: Coates 1989
PIGNAL ENCLOSURE in Denny
Old English/Middle English 'pigs' hill'. There is a 'Pig Bush' 5 miles away in the same parish, of particular interest for the adjacent 'Tantany Wood' (thus 1789), which seems to contain a common dialect word for the weakest pig in the litter, but has in fact been reformed from an obscure earlier 1578 'Tantro meade'.

   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001