What is "pickwell"

Pickwell is a small, hill-crest village south-east of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire which used to have an ecclesiastical parish of its own and is since the early 20th century has been in the civil parish and Church of England parish of Somerby which is to the SSW, connected by an almost straight lane. The population of the village at the 2011 census was included in the civil parish of Somerby.

A spring rises here as the source of a small stream which explains the well part of its name.