Tolcarne
Tolcarne 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". A carn is a pile of stones and is the same as tor in Devon.
Talkarn is the old name of Minster near Boscastle.
Places named Tolcarne include,
- part of Newlyn on the east side of the Newlyn River and formerly a separate hamlet in the civil parish of Madron.
- A hamlet south of Camborne near Troon.
- A hamlet in the parish and village of St Day.
- Tolcarne and Lower Tolcarne in the parish of St Allen.
- A farm near Porkellis in the parish of Wendron.
- Tolcarne Wartha and Little Tolcarne. Wartha is higher in Cornish.
- Tolcarne and Tolcarne Wood in the parish of St Just-in-Roseland.
- Tolcarne Point and Tolcarne Beach, Newquay.
- Tolcarne and Tolcarne Tor are north-west of North Hill and Trebartha. Tolcarne near Trebartha was a manor recorded in the Domesday Book 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.