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.

Tomkins

Early-attested site in the Parish of Abberley

Etymology

Robert Tomkyns contributed to the Lay Subsidy in 1332 in the vill of Abberley, so that this is a clear example of a place- name consisting of the possessive case of a pers. name pure and simple.