Burraton (EN) / Trewerin (KW)

Type: 
Settlement
Parish: 
Saltash
Hundred: 
East Wivelshire
Elements: 

gwerin

Meaning: 
people, folk

tre

Meaning: 
farmstead, settlement
Elements notes: 
EMF: <(ge)būr> ‘peasant’ + <tūn> ‘enclosure, estate, homestead’ECF: <tre> ‘farmstead, settlement’ + <gwerinor> ‘peasant’
Historic forms: 
Bureton 1280 (Gover, 1948) (Svensson, 1987) Boraton’ 1337 (CS) (Svensson, 1987) Boraton 1338 (Gover, 1948) Boraton 1409 (FF) (Svensson, 1987) Burraton 1884 (village)(Symons, 1884) Burraton Coombe 1884 (Symons, 1884) Burraton Lane End 1884 (Symons, 1884)