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.

Troscart

Early-attested site in the Parish of Little Salkeld

Historical Forms

  • Troscarth 1285 For
  • Troscart 1292 Ass
  • Troughscough 1272 For
  • Troskhouch 1285 ib
  • Trowescowgh 1393 GDR

Etymology

This apparently means 'brushwood cleft,' v. tros , skarð . The element tros seems to appear again in this neighbourhood in Troughscough 1272For , Troskhouch 1285 ib., Trowescowgh 1393GDR .

Places in the same Parish

None