Toller Porcorum

English

Etymology

Toller refers to the River Toller, since renamed the River Hooke, although there still is the Toller Brook,[1] which joins the Hooke at the village. Porcorum is from Latin porcorum (“of the pigs”).

Proper noun

Toller Porcorum

  1. A village and civil parish in west Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY5698).

References
  1. British Place Names: Toller Brook
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