Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Terriers

Early-attested site in the Parish of Chipping Wycombe

Historical Forms

Tarryers 1714 Recxi.179

Etymology

This probably takes its name from a pers. name Tarrier , originally a nickname for some dilatory person.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site