English Place-name Society

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.

Trent Park

Early-attested site in the Parish of Enfield

Etymology

Trent Park. This was an estate formed under the Enclosure Act of the Chase in 1776. It was granted on a lease by George III to his favourite doctor, Sir Richard Jebb, who gave it the name of Trent from Trent in Tyrol where the king's brother, the Duke of Gloucester, had recently recovered from a severe illness (LGS 90).