Tremaine (EN) / Tremen (KW)

Type: 
Settlement
Parish: 
Tremaine
Hundred: 
East Wivelshire
Notes: 
Amended from Treveyn to Tremen
Elements: 

men

Meaning: 
stone

tre

Meaning: 
farmstead, settlement
Elements notes: 
tre 'farmstead, settlement' + men 'stone'
Historic forms: 
Tremene c1150, c1450, 1515, 1520. Tremen c1230, Treeman 1284, Tremen c1230, Tremene C15, Tremeen 1523, 1529. Tremean 1534. Tremaine 1582, Tremayne 1589.