Pingles - old country name for ???

Dovefromabove

I've been reading one of my favourite poems by John Clare, 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3yCRbArVKs  - one line goes 'how lovely are the pingles in the woods'  

I used to know what pingles are - I think they're primroses, aren't they?  Does anyone know?

Think it's an old name for them in the Cambs/Northants/Beds area. 

Lupin 1

I only know the crunchy things in tubes

Dovefromabove

I'll let you off, just 'cos it's your birthday 

nutcutlet

I know the word paigle for cowslip.

Maybe there are regional variations.

Fleurisa

Or those patterned jumpers for playing golf in

Dovefromabove

I wonder if Clare uses it to mean the little open spaces - glades - in the woods - that would make sense wouldn't it?

Busy Bee2

We live on 'Pingle Lane' and a local told us that it is used (in Lincolnshire) to mean a sheep track.  Whether or not he was on the right tracks.......!

star gaze lily

Kef and Fleurisa,  childish snigger he he 

Sorry Dove  

Dovefromabove

Busy Bee2 wrote (see)

We live on 'Pingle Lane' and a local told us that it is used (in Lincolnshire) to mean a sheep track.  Whether or not he was on the right tracks.......!

So he might have been talking about flower-strewn country lanes - sheep tracks 

Are you in Lincolnshire  Oh yes, so you are  so is OH's mum 

artjak

I think 'poggles' are cowslips?

nutcutlet

These all sound like regional variations don't they? I wonder where the origin is