Piddle Brook
The Piddle Brook is a little river in Worcestershire; It rises in Kington, and form there flows past several pretty villages, including Flyford Flavell, North Piddle, Naunton Beauchamp and Wyre Piddle. It joins the River Avon near Pershore.
In 2009 Worcestershire Wildlife Trust purchased the meadows in Naunton Beauchamp which Piddle Brook flows through.[1]
The brook is forded on the road to Naunton Beauchamp at Sea Ford.[2]
Name
William Henry Dugan, in his book Worcestershire Place Names, states that although the word "Piddle" is not listed in any Anglo-Saxon dictionary, it is found in a few places in Anglo-Saxon charters. Dugan believes that the word "Piddle" is an Old English word for a small stream.[3]
A former name for the Piddle, drawn from the Old Welsh language once spoken in these parts, may have been Wyre, as there is a town on the brook called Wyre Piddle.[4]
Location
- Location map: 52°7’0"N, 2°4’6"W
References
- ↑ '[http://www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/index.php?section=helping:campaigns Piddle Brook Meadows - success!]': Worcestershire Wildlife Trust
- ↑ Sea Ford: wetroads.co.uk]
- ↑ William Henry Dugan (1905). Worcestershire Place Names. Oxford University Press. p. 128. https://books.google.com/books?id=lmYjAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22north+piddle%22+origin+of+the+name&pg=PA128.
- ↑ Reaney, P.H. (1964). The Origin Of English Place-Names. Routledge and Keagan Paul. p. 80.