Towell (EN) / Trefenten (KW)

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

fenten

Meaning: 
spring, well, source

tre

Meaning: 
farmstead, settlement
Elements notes: 
tre 'farmstead, settlement' + fenten 'spring, well'
Historic forms: 
atte Wille 1342. Towill 1598. per Svensson Æt-Þæm-wielle ‘at the spring (stream)’