habitational name from Tarleton in Lancashire, near
Croston, named with the Old Norse personal name þóraldr
(composed of the elements þórr, name of the Norse god of
thunder (see Thor) + valdr ‘rule’) + Old English
tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.habitational name from
Tarlton in Gloucestershire, recorded in Domesday Book as
Torentune and in 1204 as Torleton, probably from Old
English thorn ‘thorn tree’ + leah ‘(forest) clearing’
+ tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
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