Enclosure in which stray domestic animals, cattle, sheep, pigs, geese were kept until their owners paid a fine to collect them.
Piscina
Small basin in a Christian church used to clean the priest's hands and the sacred vessels used at Mass.
Pit Brow Women
Female surface labourers at British collieries. They worked at the coal screens on the pit brow (pit bank) at the shaft top until the 1960s. Their job was to pick stones and sort the coal after it was hauled to the surface.
Pitfour estate
Estate in the Buchan area of north-east Scotland, home to James Ferguson of Badifurrow, the first Laird of Pitfour, and two generations of his family.
Pittenweem witches
Five Scottish women accused of witchcraft in the small fishing village of Pittenweem in Fife on the east coast of Scotland in 1704.
Plague House
Redirected to pest house.
Plague stones
Hollowed out stones or boulders containing vinegar to disinfect coins, usually placed at or near parish boundaries, relics of medieval plagues.
Ploughland
Redirected to oxgang.
Pollock and the Porroh Man
Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1895, about a murdered witch-doctor whose severed head haunts the man responsible for his death.
Port of Manchester
Customs port in North West England, created on 1 January 1894 and closed in 1982.
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