PUTNAM, (Hertfordshire) 2 m. N. W. of Tring, formerly bel. to the Cheyneys, and passed from them to the Puttenhams; and by marriage to Skipwith, who sold it to John Saunders; whose descendant sold it to Francis Duncomb, to whom the court-baron bel. though the manor lies within the leet of Weston in Bucks. The old name is Putenham, i.e. a place of wells, or springs. A rivulet runs by here from Tring, which goes by Alesbury to Thame, and thence by Wheatley-Bridge to Dorchester in Oxfordshire.