Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• on tollor aewylman, of þam aewylman 1035 SherC(S975) 12

• Tollre Euulme 1268 Ass

• Tolreewelme 1334 FF

• Tolre 1086 DB 1287 Forde 15 Ass 1288

• Tolra Hy2 Forde 15 CartAnt 1204 Forde 15

• Toure 1201 Cur

• Tor(e) 1202 Cur

• Torne (sic) 1203 Cur

• Tolye (sic) 1251–2 Fees

• Tolle 1376 Fine 1380 Forde 15

• Tolrer ib

• the ferme of Toller 1550 AddCh

• Toller abbatis 1403 Hutch3

• (þe ferme of) Tollarwylme 1551 AddCh

• Tollarwilme 1551 AddCh

• ((ye) manor of) Tollerwylme 1551 AddCh

• Tollerwilme, Tollerwelme, Tollerwill 1551 AddCh

• (manner and farme of) Tollerwill(i)me 1551 AddCh

• Toller Whelme 1734 WRO

• Toller Whelme Fm 1838 TA

• Toller Welme 1774 Hutch1

• Tollerwhelme 1795 Boswell

• Pinnys Toller 1811 OS

Etymology

'Source of the R. Toller ', from OE  ǣwielm, ǣwylm 'river-spring'.The Toller , the old name for R. Hooke, rises in the long valley here and gives name to the pars. of Toller Fratrum and Toller Porcorum as well as to Tollerford in Frome Vauchurch par. all supra , v. RNs.infra . The earliest form cited occurs as a point in the Saxon bdy of Corscombe. The early affix Abbatis (Lat  abbas 'abbot', gen.sg. abbatis ) alludes to the messuage and lands here held by Forde Abbey (Hutch3 292). Pinnys Toller recalls the Penne family 'of East Coker and Cheddington' who bought the manor in 1630 (Hutch3 292–3); for the same family cf. Penney's Hill Coppice in Chedington par. supra and Wyke Fm in Halstock par. supra . To the forms cited from 1551AddCh might be added the following from the same source: 'Abbot White dyd buyld a howse at…Tollerwilme…nowe the mantion house of the sayd ferme.'Note too in 1659WRO , also with reference to this place: 'We present to have the water cours brought forthe to the gret gate.'