Trowle Fm and Common and Trowle Bridge
Early-attested site in the Parish of Bradford on Avon
Historical Forms
- Trole 1086 DB
- Trol t.Hy2 Shaston 1263 For 1333 SR 1352,1355 Pat
- Trul t.Hy2 Shaston
- Trulle 1242 Fees
- Bradfordestrull 1504 Ipm
- Trolle 1242 Fees 1268,1289 Ass 1327 SR 1384 Cl
- Troll 1349 BM
- Troulle 1571 PCC
- Great Trowle 1611 SR
- le Trullebrugge t.Ed4 DuLa
Etymology
This is a difficult name and the solution of it is not made easier by our not knowing just where the site called Trowle really lay.Trowle Bridge lies on a tributary of the Biss. At the headwaters of one of the feeders of that tributary lies Trowle Fm, with Trowle Ho and Trowle Wood in Wingfield close at hand. A mile north-east of Trowle Fm lies Trowle Common, with Trowle Manor Court Fm and Trowle Cottage close at hand, but well away from the stream. It is just possible that Trul (l ) was originally the name of the stream. There is evidence for such a stream-name denoting something which turns; cf. Trill, Trull (RN 418), Trulley Brook (PN Sr 6). From this Trowle Fm and Trowle Bridge would appropriately be named. The name may have been extended to other places in the neighbourhood or possibly a compound of Trul and leah , denoting 'clearing by the Trull,' was formed and that may have had the same development as we find in some of the names noted under Keevil infra 142.