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Mappa
Hwilas
A-Z
Asnodhow
EN
KW
Okeltor
(EN)
/
Torranna
(KW)
Type:
Settlement
Parish:
Calstock
Hundred:
East Wivelshire
Notes:
Coleman: Padel and Gover missing origin. Origin in OE tokelyng ‘to divide, to lie between, divide, separate’. In reference to the dividing rock. Its purpose being to divide fishing areas of the river Tamar; a boundary rock.
Elements:
ranna
Meaning:
to divide
torr
Meaning:
protrusion, eminence
Elements notes:
torr 'tor, crag' + ranna 'divide, dividing'
Historic forms:
Tokelyng Torre 1351. Toclyngtorre 1354. Toklyngtorre 1461.