Okeltor (EN) / Torranna (KW)

Type: 
Parish: 
Hundred: 
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.