Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Tarente 1086 DB(f.77b)

• Tar(r)ent(e) c.1185 Templar 1227 FF 1237 Cl

• Thar(r)ent(e) 1237 Ch 1403 Pat

• Terent 1242 ib

• T(h)ar(r)enta 1244 Ass c.1270 Seymer

• litle tarenta, lyteltarente 1372 ChrP

• Nuns Tarent 1377 Pat 1381

• Tarent Monachorum als. Tarent Abbey 1582 Hutch3

• Tarrant 1598 Drax

• Parva Craweford 1291 Tax 1429 EgCh

• Little Crauford, Lit(t)el Crauford 1347 Pat 1386 Cl

• Parva Crauford 1412 FA

• Parva Crawford, Parva Croweford 1428 ib

• Craford 1575 Saxton

• Lordshipp of Lyttle Craford within Tarrant 1598 Drax

• Craford parva 1599 ib

• Crawford Tarrant, Parva or Little 1795 Boswell

• Preston or Tarrant Crawford 1869 Hutch3

Etymology

Named from R. Tarrant, v. RNs.infra , cf. Tarrant H. par. supra ; Nuns -, -Monachorum (for Monacharum , 'of the nuns'), -Abbey with reference to the former abbey here, v. St Mary & All Saints' Abbey infra . Little Crawford , originally comprising a large part of the present par., is so named to distinguish it from Great Crawford (q. v .) in Spettisbury par. supra on the opposite bank of R. Stour, v. lȳtel . Preston Crawford is from Preston Fm (earlier Tarrant Preston ) which formerly formed a tithing with (Tarrant) Crawford (Hutch3 3 118, cf. Preston cum Craford Tithing 1664 HTax), and which is now in Tarrant Rush. par. infra .