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.

Tarrant

Other OS name in the Parish of Spettisbury

Etymology

, a plantation , no doubt an allusion to the abbey of Tarrant which had lands in Spettisbury in 1293 Hutch3 3516, 521 .