Meanings
- A locality in Stocksfield parish, Northumberland, England.
Origin
- Old Englishsceaga“coppice, thicket”
- Cumbric*penn“head, summit”
- EnglishPainshawfield
From Cumbric *penn (“head, summit”) + Old English sceaga (“coppice, thicket”) + feld (“field, open plain”).
More words from Cumbric, Old English
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Painshawfield. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Painshawfield
“Painshawfield.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Painshawfield. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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