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Pîl (also rendered as Pill, Pil or Pyll) is a Welsh placename element. The name is defined as the tidal reach of a waterway, suitable as a harbour, and is common along the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary. The highly localised distribution suggests it may have been part of a common maritime culture on the waterways within the tidal reach of the Severn Sea.[1]
The name is today most commonly associated with the village of Pyle in Glamorgan, and the small village of Pill in Somerset.
- ^ Owen, William (1803). A Dictionary of the Welsh Language. Vol. II. London.