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.

Thornton Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Kenn

Historical Forms

Thorn(e)ton 1249 Ass 1298 BM

Etymology

is Thorn (e )ton 1249Ass (p), 1298 BM . v. tun .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Kenn