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.

Tawstock

Major Settlement in the Parish of Tawstock

Historical Forms

  • Tauestocha 1086 DB
  • Taustoche 1157–60 France
  • Taustok' 1212 Fees97
  • Taustok al. dicta Toustoke c.1400 Exon
  • Tawestoke 1279 Abbr
  • Toustok 1227 Ch
  • Tostock 1594 Cai

Etymology

'stoc(c) by the river Taw,' supra 14.