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.

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  1. Thornbury Hundred (Lower Division) (Hundred in Gloucestershire)

    Named from Thornbury (14infra ), an extensive and important manor with a castle, belonging to the Earls of Gloucester (cf. Taylor 191, 195, Anderson

  2. Thornbury Hundred (Upper Division) (Hundred in Gloucestershire)

  3. Thorngrove Hundred (Hundred in Wiltshire)

  4. Thornhill Hundred (Hundred in Wiltshire)

  5. Thornage (Parish in Norfolk)

  6. Thornborough (Parish in Buckinghamshire)

  7. Thornbury (Parish in Devon)

  8. Thornbury (Parish in Gloucestershire)

  9. Thornby (Parish in Northamptonshire)

  10. Thorncombe (Parish in Devon)

    Transferred to Dorset in

  11. Thorncombe (Parish in Dorset)

    This par., formerly in Devon in Axminster Hundred (v. PN D 648), was transferred to Dorset in

  12. Thorne (Parish in West Riding of Yorkshire)

  13. Thorner (Parish in West Riding of Yorkshire)

  14. Thorney (Parish in Nottinghamshire)

  15. Thorney (Parish in The Isle of Ely)

  16. Thornford (Parish in Dorset)

  17. Thornhaugh (Parish in Northamptonshire)

  18. Thornhill (Parish in Derbyshire)

  19. Thornhill (Parish in West Riding of Yorkshire)

    The townships of Flockton and Shitlington (205infra ) remain separate civil parishes but Thornhill (210infra ) is now in the County Borough of Dewsbury (184supra

  20. Thornton (Parish in Buckinghamshire)