Pyrford

Other current and historical names

Pirford
Pyriford
Peliforde
Pyrford Green

Built-Up Area: Woking
Parish/Community: Woking, unparished area
District/Borough: Woking
County: Surrey
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°19'46"N 0°30'37"W
Eastings/Northings: 503880, 159984
OS Grid: TQ038599
Mapcode Local: GBR 0R.207
Mapcode Global: VHFV3.3VJ5

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Pyrford within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Pyrford in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Pyrford (or Pirford), par. and vil., Surrey, on river Wey, 7 miles NE. of Guildford, 1881 ac., pop. 343.

Pyrford in the Domesday Book

A village in Godley hundred, in the county of Surrey.

- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Earl Harold
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Westminster
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Abbey of Westminster
- Taxable Value: 27 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £12 in 1066; £10 in 1070; £18 in 1086
- Households: 37 villagers; 14 smallholders; 3 slaves
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 6 men's ploughs (13 plough lands)
- Meadow: 15 acres
- Woodland: 40 swine render
- Pasture: 40 grazing for pigs
- Mills: 2, value 10 shillings

British Place Names

Pyrford, Surrey

Pyrford is a village in Woking, Surrey

Pyrford in historic gazetteers

Pyrford in the Domesday Book