Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• þe torne, with þe thrivand thorne c.1450–70 AwntyrsoffArthure(I)

Etymology

'The tarn (i.e. Tarn Wadling infra 204) with the flourishing thorn.' “Yearly, on the day of St Barnabas, the court for the forest of Inglewood is held there. The suitors are assembled in the open air by the highway side at the accustomed place, now not otherwise marked than by an ancient thorn” (H i, 504).For further references to the thorn, see supra 200.