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.

Thorney

Early-attested site in the Parish of Iver

Etymology

'Thorn-island' (v. þorn , eg ), either from the thorn-bushes there or from some prominent thorn-tree.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement

Iver