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.

Tenters

Field in the Parish of Rearsby

Historical Forms

  • Tenters 1703 Terrier 1709 Terrier 1712 Terrier 1745 Terrier

Etymology

Tenters 1703, 1709, 1712, 1745 (v. tentour and the Greene, supra)