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A History of the County of Hampshire
… Bekynton, Bishop of Bath and Wells, a beacon on a tun; Thomas Chaundler, warden of Winchester, a capital T and …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… belongs to Langton's time, and bears his device of a tun with TL, and another of a cockatrice on a tun. At the springing of the vault is his motto, 'Laus tibi …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Norman Conquest, called Wodeton, from wode, a wood, and tun, a town. About a century after that period, it became the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1-3 km. from the village, are five places with the element tun in their names, which may be English renamings of older … south and roughly doubled in size. Admaston, 'Eadmund's tun', 10 grew in the mid 18th century from a rural village … new town in 1968. 14 Bratton, the 'newly cultivated tun', was a small hamlet centred on Bratton Farm in 1839. 15 …