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Adit Lane adit, a tunnel draining water from a mine by gravity. The only lasting function of Wheal Elizabeth was to supply water from its adit to the shoot in Adit Lane.
Bowgey from Cornish bugh, chy (cow-house)
Carn Carn (rock pile)
Chypons Chy pons (house by a bridge)
Chywoone Chy + gun (house on a down)
Faugan may include fow, cave
Fradgan forth ojyon (ox road)
Gwavas Gwavas (winter homestead) from gwaf (winter)
Jack Lane in 1278 Jackford recorded at Newlyn, possibly earlier name for present day Jack Lane. (forth, way)
Keel Alley now a grassy playground for children Keel Alley was, before it was filled in, tidal, with the road supported on piles and many small boats on moorings on the landward side. The name ‘keel-alley’ is traditionally recorded as a dialect term for a place for playing skittles. In this instance the name is more likely to refer to the keel of a boat.
Lane Reddin Terrace Lyn reden (fern/bracken stitch) This terrace was built on land that probably carrying this field name. Stitch is often found as a measurement of land, normally a field of half an acre or less.
Roskilly Ros (a heath or spur of land) with skylyow (nooks, recesses)
Street-an-Nowan Stret an oghen (street of the oxen)
Tolcarne Tal carn (brow of a rock-pile)
Tredavoe Tre (farm) + ? (in earliest records Trewordavo with variations on spelling. Recorded as Tredavow in 1624.
Trereife Tre + ? Pronounced ‘Treeve’.
Treneglos Tref eglos, church farm
Trewarveneth Tre war veneth (farm on a hill)
Trungle Tre + mengleth (stone quarry)
Wheal Whel (originally ‘work’ but has come to mean ‘mine’. The early mines were known as works). Usually followed by the name of the mine, as in Wheal Betsy (Elizabeth) on Chywoone Hill.
Margaret E. Perry
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