Place Name
Originally Pinnerhill Road. Rising to 126 metres (413 ft), Pinner Hill is the 11th highest natural point in London. The name Pinner was first written down as Pinnora in 1231. The first part Pinn may be from someone’s name or the Old English word pinn, meaning a pin or peg, possibly as a reference to the humped ridge traversing Pinner Park which includes Nower Hill. The second part is thought to come from another Old English word ōra, meaning hill, or from the Latin for river bank or slope. So possibly Pynn’s place by the river or the river by the pet shaped hill. In any case the name stuck. In 1248 it was spelt Pinnore, in 1332 it was spelt Pinnere and in 1483, Pynnor.
