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.

Turchington

Early-attested site in the Parish of Lifton

Historical Forms

  • T(h)ycheneton 14th Launceston
  • Tuchenaton 1333 SR

Etymology

'Farm at the crossways,' v. tun and cf. Twitchen supra 57. Three or four tracks meet here.