Tyning is a name-element occurring commonly in north-east

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- most of all in the

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area, though also as far as

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in the south-west, and over the borders into

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and

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. It is used of three

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s, of several farms, and also in at least a score of

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names, as well as the names of schools in Staple Hill and in Henbury in

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(e.g
The Tynings School
, and in the name used of a part of the town of Radstock. There are outlying uses in Sussex and Ulster, and in street names in Droitwich, Walsall, and Wolverhampton. The manner of its use suggests that it is or was a

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, but its meaning is obscure. The word may derive from the meaning to "enclose with a hedge or fence; to fence, to hedge in" given for the verb 'tine' or 'tyne' in the

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2nd edition.

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(aka Rowlands), ''A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence'' (1605) gives the usages ''“Betyned. Hedged-about. ee vse yet in some partes of England, to say tyning for hedging.”'' Lexicons of Early Modern English. Ed. Ian Lancashire. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Library and University of Toronto Press, 2006. Non-finalized entry. Date consulted: 21 July 2012. URL: leme.library.utoronto.ca/lexicon/entry.cfm?ent=281-76 However, it does not appear in the

, in Chambers, or in the Linguistic Atlas of England ''(Orton &c, Leeds University Press, London, 1978)''.

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(''The Buildings of England: Bristol and North Somerset'', Penguin, 1958) mentions it only in passing, to refer to an

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long barrow at Tyning Farm, Cheddar.

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