Toponomy
The settlement's earliest name, Twychene, is possibly a corruption of 'two chain' where chains were stretched across road junctions to enable a toll to be levied. As the village lies on the junction of the A330 and the B3024 this is a plausible explanation. Another theory is that the Touchen End has evolved from a shortening of Tutchin Lane End meaning a hamlet at the fork of a road, twicen(e) being Old English for fork of a road.
In the years since 1274 the village has been recorded on maps and referred to in documents which show the evolution of the name:
| Name | Date | Source |
| Twychene | 1274 - 1353 | Rentals and Surveys |
| Twichene | 1314 - 1316 | Ministers Accounts |
| La Twichen | 1316 | Calendar of Fine Rolls |
| La Twychene | 1338/9 | Calendar of Fine Rolls & Introduction to the Survey of English Place Names 1924 |
| Twechene | 1401/2 | Feudal Aids |
| Twechen | 1426/7 | Court Rolls (Bray) |
| Towchinge | 1586 | Rentals and Surveys |
| Tutcham Lane | 1641 | State Papers Domestic |
| Tutchin Lane End | 1711 | A Letter containing an account of some antiquities between Windsor and Oxford, T. Hearne |
| Tutchin Lane | 1761 | A Topographical Survey of the County of Berkshire, J. Rocque, 1761 |
| Tutchin Lane | 1790 | A topographical Map of the Town of Reading and the Country adjacent to an Extent of Ten Miles, Thomas Pride, 1790 |
| Tatchen Lane | 1800 | Map of Windsor Park and part of the Forest, Wm. Eden, 1800 |
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