Copthorne (EN) / Spernentrogh (KW)

Type: 
Settlement
Parish: 
North Petherwin
Hundred: 
East Wivelshire
Elements: 

spernen

Meaning: 
thorn tree

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: 
Cobthorne 1612 (FF) (Gover, 1948)