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.

Yes Tor

Early-attested site in the Parish of Okehampton and Okehampton Hamlets

Etymology

It is spelt Yerneristorre in the Buckfast Cartulary, but this must be an error. Donne's map (1765) has Yestor . The meaning is 'eagle's tor ,' v. earn . Cf. Easdon infra 482 and the later forms of Yarnscombe supra 82.