Tolcarne Explained

Tolcarne (kw|Talkarn)^[1] is the name of a number of places in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The name Tolcarne is derived from Cornish Talkarn i.e. "hill-brow tor".^[2] A carn is a pile of stones (usually natural) and is the same as tor in Devon. Talkarn is the old name of Minster near Boscastle.

Places named Tolcarne include,

• part of Newlyn on the east side of the Newlyn River and formerly a separate hamlet in the civil parish of Madron.^[3]
• A hamlet south of Camborne near Troon .^[4]
• A hamlet in the parish and village of St Day .^[4]
• Tolcarne and Lower Tolcarne in the parish of St Allen.^[4]
• A farm near Porkellis in the parish of Wendron .
• Tolcarne Wartha and Little Tolcarne . Wartha is higher in Cornish.
• Tolcarne and Tolcarne Wood in the parish of St Just-in-Roseland .^[5]
• Tolcarne Point and Tolcarne Beach, Newquay .^[6]
• Tolcarne and Tolcarne Tor are north-west of North Hill and Trebartha.^[7] 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.^[8]

Notes and References

1. http://www.magakernow.org.uk/default.aspx?page=520 Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF)
2. [Weatherhill, Craig]
3. Book: Cooke . Ian McNeil . Crosses and Churchway Paths in the Land's End Peninsula, West Cornwall. Parishes of Paul & Sancreed . 2001 . Men-an-Tol Studio . Bosullow . 9.
4. OS Explorer Map. Redruth and St Agnes . 2013 . Ordnance Survey . Southampton . 978 0 319 24034 2 . B2.
5. Book: OS Explorer 105. Falmouth & Mevagissey . 2015 . Ordnance Survey . Southampton . 978 0 319 24307 7 .
6. Book: OS Explorer 106. Newquay & Padstow . 2011 . Ordnance Survey . Southampton . 978 0 319 24016 8 . B3.
7. . 2015 . . Southampton . 978 0 319 24311 4.
8. Thorn, C. et al., ed. (1979) Cornwall. Chichester: Phillimore; entry 3,6