Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Thoue tarne 1170–84 Kendi,396

• Tovetarne 1558–69 Kendi,348

• Toove ith Terne 1614 Wndm

• Tawterne 1390–4 Kendii,65

• Towterne 16 Kendii,8

• Towtorn(e) 1523,1577 1585 Tullie 1594 PR(K)

• Towtourne 1613,1617,1628 ib

• Touturne, Towturne 1625,1630 ib

• -in Staveley 1631 ib

• -tarne 1608 FF

• -therne 1611 ib

• -thorne 1650 Rent19 1659 Dep 1676 Kendi,341

• Tutarne 1574 Rent212

• Toathorn 1706 Will

• Towtron nook 1836 KCR

Etymology

The modern form Outrun arises from the wrong analysis of the adverbial expression 'at Towtron ' as 'at Owtron '. The place is in the south-east corner of the parish on the Crook boundary and the name would seem to have referred originally to a tarn a little to the north-west of Outrun Nook now represented by a piece of boggy ground growing timber. 'Tófi's lake', from the ON  pers.n. Tófi (Feilitzen 384), v. tjǫrn .