Thurgarton, in the Thurgarton Wapentake of Nottinghamshire, comes from the Old Norse male personal name Þorgeirr (though in an anglicised form Þurgar) and the Old English element tun ‘farm, settlement’, and is thus a hybrid name.
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J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer and F.M. Stenton, The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire. English Place-Name Society Volume XVII (1940), p. 178.
