Olchard
| Olchard | |
|---|---|
Stone walls and stone buildings at Olchard | |
Olchard Location within Devon | |
| OS grid reference | SX8777 |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Devon and Somerset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
Olchard is a village in Devon, England.
Etymology
The name of Olchard is first clearly attested in 1765. However, Oliver Padel has argued that surnames of local people attested as early as 1332 as Tolchet evidence an earlier form of this name (with the t- later being lost due to misanalysis of the phrase "at Tolchet" as "at Olchet"). He analyses this as deriving from Common Brittonic. It seems to comprise the words found in modern Welsh as twll ("hole, cave") and coed ("woodland"), the name being paralleled by several Welsh places called Tyllgoed, the Cornish place-name Tolgus, and the now-lost Breton place-name Toulgoat.[1]
References
- ^ Padel, O. J. (2009). "Two Devonshire place-names" (PDF). Journal of the English Place-Name Society. 41: 119–26.