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.

St Johns Chapel

Early-attested site in the Parish of Tawstock

Etymology

There was an ancient chapelry here of the Knights Templars, later of St John of Jerusalem, who have also left their trace in the parish in a farm called Templeton. Cf. Templeton infra 394.