Olchard

Olchard is a village in Devon, England.

Olchard
Stone walls and stone buildings at Olchard
Olchard Location within Devon
OS grid reference	SX8777
Shire county	Devon
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Devon and Cornwall
Fire	Devon and Somerset
Ambulance	South Western
List of places UK England Devon 50.58°N 03.59°W / 50.58; -03.59

Etymology

The name of Olchard is first clearly attested in 1765. However, Oliver Padel has argued that surnames of local people attested as early as 1332 as Tolchet evidence an earlier form of this name (with the t- later being lost due to misanalysis of the phrase "at Tolchet" as "at Olchet"). He analyses this as deriving from Common Brittonic. It seems to comprise the words found in modern Welsh as twll ("hole, cave") and coed ("woodland"), the name being paralleled by several Welsh places called Tyllgoed, the Cornish place-name Tolgus, and the now-lost Breton place-name Toulgoat.^[1]