Tagwell Lane
Early-attested site in the Parish of Droitwich
Historical Forms
- Tagwall spring 1456 VCHiii.79
- Taggewell 17th Nash 18th
Etymology
There can be little doubt that here and in Tagg Barn in Chaddesley Corbett supra 238, also in Taggemere in Bishampton (Nash), we have the word tag used in the west and south-west for a sheep, apparently a variation of the more usual tegg .Hitherto the form tag has only been known from modern dialect, but the forms here given show that tagge was already in use in the 13th cent. and suggests that the two forms teg and tag go back to an OE tacga , teg being a common dialectal development of a to e . Cf. Zachrisson in Englische Studien lix. 353. For the name we may compare Sw tacka , 'ewe, sheep.'