Fursdon (EN) / Treneythin (KW)

Type: 
Settlement
Parish: 
St Dominick
Hundred: 
East Wivelshire
Elements: 

an

Meaning: 
the

eythin

Meaning: 
gorse

tre

Meaning: 
farmstead, settlement
Elements notes: 
tre 'farmstead, settlement' + an 'the' + eythin 'gorse, furze'
Historic forms: 
Atteforsen 1345. Atte Forsen 1355. Forsen 1402. Furcen 1422 Anglo-Saxon Æt-thæm-fyrsum ‘at the furze bushes’