Coppathorne (EN) / Sperntrogh (KW)

Type: 
Settlement
Parish: 
Poundstock
Hundred: 
Lesnewth
Elements: 

spern

Meaning: 
thorn trees

trogh

Meaning: 
coppiced, cut
Elements notes: 
EMF: OWS coppede ‘pollarded, provided with a top’ + OWS Þorn ‘thorn-tree’ECF: spernen ‘thorn tree’ + trogh ‘cut’
Historic forms: 
Cobbethorne 1360 (Ass (g)) (Gover, 1948) (Svensson 1987) Cobthorne 1612 (FF (G)) (Gover, 1948) (Svensson 1987)