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Survey of English Place-Names

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Tollerford Hundred

Hundred in the County of Dorset

Historical Forms

  • Tolreforde hundret c.1086 GeldR
  • Tolreford(e) 1244,1268,1280,1288 Ass 1303 FA 1431 et freq
  • Toureford', Tollreford 1244 Ass
  • Tholreford 1258 For
  • Tolr(r)ef(f)ord' 1268 Ass
  • Thol(l)ereford, Thelreford 1275 RH
  • Tolreuorde 1322 Ext
  • Tollereford 1372 ChrP
  • Tollerford 1428 FA
  • Frontone hundret c.1086 GeldR
  • Libertas de Frompton(e) 1327,1332 SR
  • Liberty of Frampton 1664 HTax 1670 Sheridan

Etymology

named from Tollerford in Frome Vauchurch par. infra , the original meeting-place of the hundred, cf. the statement in 1653ParlSurv that the hundred court meets 'near the great bridge at Mayden Newton' (v. Maiden Newton par. infra ).