Copthorne (EN) / Spernentrogh (KW)

Type: 
Parish: 
Hundred: 
Elements: 

spern

Meaning: 
thorn trees

trogh

Meaning: 
coppiced, cut
Elements notes: 
EMF: OWS coppede ‘pollarded, provided with a top’ + OWS Þorn ‘thorn-tree’ECF: spernen ‘thorn tree’ + trogh ‘cut’
Historic forms: 
Copthorn 1826 (Gover, 1948)