Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Tarente 1086 DB(f.77b)

• Tarenta 1107 Ch 1300

• Tarenta Monachorum 1154–89 Pat 1496 Cecil c.1183 14

• Tarent(e) Monachorum 1291 Tax 1428 FA

• Terrunt(e) Monachorum Hy8 Hutch3

• Tarrent Monachorum 1530 Cecil

• Tarraunte Monachorum 1556 Dugd

• Tarent(e) Moneketon(e) 1280,1288 Ass 1327 SR 1335,1340 Pat 1366 ChrP 1372

• Tarent(e) Monketon(') 1288 Ass 1332 SR 1340 NI 1380 Cl 1400,1402 Pat

• Tarent(e) Monkton 1332 ib

• Tarent(e) Munketon 1367 ib

• Monks' Tarente 1384 Pat

• Munketon 1575 Saxton

• Munckton Tarrant 1795 Boswell

Etymology

Named from R. Tarrant, v. Tarrant H. par. supra , RNs. infra ; for the DB identification, v. VCHDo 374. Monkton means 'farm of the monks', from munuc (gen.pl. munuca ) and tūn , cf. the alternative Lat  affix -Monachorum 'of the monks', with reference to the possession of this manor by the priory of Cranborne (1086 DB) and by the abbey of Tewkesbury (1154–89 (1496) Pat), v. Hutch3 3572, cf. Monkton Up Wimborne in Wimborne St G. par. supra . There was a mill here in 1086 DB, v. VCHDo loc. cit .