Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Ternescou 1086 DB

• Ternesco 1086 ib

• Ternescrou (sic) 1086 ib

• Tirnesco c.1115 LS 1194 P

• Tirnescog 1212 Fees

• Tiernesco 1195 P

• Thirnescho 1212 Fees

• Thirnesco 1273 Ipm 1364 ADiii 1372 Misc

• Thirnescogh' 1300 FF

• Thirnessco 14 ADvi

• Thyrnescho 1440 Visit

• Thyrnescough 1502 Ipm

• Thyrnscho 1327 SR

• Thirnsco 1373(p),1376 Peace 1384 1421 AD 1446 AD

• Thernesco 1309 Pat

• Thrinesco 1332 SR

• Thrynsco 1395 Peace

• Thrynscowe 1443 ADvi

• Thrynscoo 1536–37 Dugdvi

• Thrinsco 1503 Ipm

• Thurnsco 1535 VEiv

• Thurnescoe a1567 LNQv

• Throunschow 1572 Inv

• Thronskow 1581 ib

• Thrunskoe 1594 Inv 1758 BT

• Thrunscoe Eliz ChancP 1645 BRA 1663,1677 Inv

• Thrunscoe Farm 1871 Census

• Thrunscowe 1609 LRMB

• Thrunscoo 1611,1636 Foster 1846 EnclA

• Thrunsco 1627,1635,1690 Inv 1842 White

• Thrumscoe als Thrumstow als Thrumstowe (sic) 1636 LincsD

• Thronschothorp 1588 Inv

• the Thorpe of Thrunscoe 1761 Td'E

Etymology

'The thorn-bush wood', v. þyrnir 'a thorn-bush', skógr , a Scand. compound. The site is now built over and the name is represented today by Thrunscoe Rd.