Our journey now leads us on the west of pinfold-street, keeping it about twenty yards on our left; up Peck-lane, till we come near the top, when we turn to the right, keeping the buildings, with the Free-school in New street, on our left, into Swan-alley.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
Through Bull-lane we proceed to Temple-street; down Peck lane, to the top of pinfold-street; Dudley-street, the Old Hinkleys to the top of Smallbrook street, back through Edgbaston-street, Digbeth, to the upper end of Deritend.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
When the early Burlingtonians wanted to catch herring, they did not trouble themselves about nets, or hooks and lines, but they built in the shallow water near the shore a pen, or, as they called it, a "pinfold," made by driving stakes into the sand so as to inclose a circular space about six feet in diameter.
"Stories of New Jersey"
Frank Richard Stockton