Tolcarne
Tolcarne (Cornish: Talkarn)[1] is a hamlet south of Camborne in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.[2]
Tolcarne is also a hamlet in the parish of Wendron, Cornwall.[3]
Tolcarne is also a hamlet in the parish and village of St. Day, Cornwall.[4]
There are also places called Tolcarne in the parishes of Penzance and St Columb Minor; another Tolcarne and Tolcarne Tor are northwest of North Hill and Trebartha. The name Tolcarne is derived from Cornish Talkarn i.e. "hill-brow tor". (Talkarn is also the old name of Minster near Boscastle.)[5][6]
Tolcarne near Trebartha was a manor recorded in the Domesday Book (1086) when it belonged to Tavistock Abbey. It was one of several manors held from the abbey by Ermenhald. There was land for 1 plough; there were 2 smallholders who had 2 oxen and one acre of pasture. The value of the manor was 5 shillings.[7]
References
- ↑ Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel. Cornish Language Partnership.
- ↑ Ordnance Survey One-inch Map of Great Britain; Land's End, sheet 189. 1961
- ↑ Ordnance Survey One-inch Map of Great Britain; Land's End, sheet 189. 1961
- ↑ Ordnance Survey One-inch Map of Great Britain; Land's End, sheet 189. 1961
- ↑ Weatherhill, Craig (2009) A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names. Westport, Mayo: Evertype; p. 66
- ↑ Ordnance Survey One-inch Map of Great Britain; Bodmin and Launceston, sheet 186. 1961
- ↑ Thorn, C. et al., ed. (1979) Cornwall. Chichester: Phillimore; entry 3,6
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