Tolcarne

Tolcarne (Cornish: 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 (grid reference SX110904) near Boscastle.

Places named Tolcarne include,

• part of Newlyn on the east side of the Newlyn River (grid reference SW462290) and formerly a separate hamlet in the civil parish of Madron.^[3]
• A hamlet south of Camborne near Troon (grid reference SW655387).^[4]
• A hamlet in the parish and village of St Day (grid reference SW725421).^[4]
• Tolcarne (grid reference SW826513) and Lower Tolcarne (grid reference SW828509) in the parish of St Allen.^[4]
• A farm near Porkellis in the parish of Wendron (grid reference SW683348).
• Tolcarne Wartha (grid reference SW686352) and Little Tolcarne (grid reference SW685355). Wartha is higher in Cornish.
• Tolcarne (grid reference SW846382) and Tolcarne Wood (grid reference SW842386) in the parish of St Just-in-Roseland (grid reference SW846382).^[5]
• Tolcarne Point and Tolcarne Beach, Newquay (grid reference SW8162).^[6]
• Tolcarne (grid reference SX249783) and Tolcarne Tor (grid reference SX250786) 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]