English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

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( Plantation or ) Boyne

Field in the Parish of Motcombe

Historical Forms

  • 1838 TA 1838 TA

Etymology

(Plantation or) Boyne(possibly a transferred namefrom R. Boyne in Ireland, and perhaps commemorative of the battlefought there in 1690, cf. Shepherds' Md infra; Thorning is probably fromþyrning'place growing with thorns')