Pyrianforda to Pyrford?

I’m sure you all know that Pyrford is the modern-day derivative of the Anglo-Saxon for ‘the pear tree by the ford’.  But did you know there are 10 other recorded stages the name of our village went through:

• Pyrianforda           c956, 1250
• Piriford           c1067, 1107
• Peliforde         c1086
• Perford            c1175
• Pyryford          c1263
• Pireford, Pyreford        c1255, 1279
• Puryford          c1275, 1309
• Pureford          c1317
• Periford           c1370
• Pyrpherde
• Pyrford            c1573

Source – English Place Name Society https://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/