1000 Cornish Place Names Explained |
Common terms and phrases
Bargos Berepper Blue-green Bolventor Bran Breage Bridge Cadoc Calenick Card Covers Carn Carrek Carrick Castle Celtic Church cleft cliff Cornish language Cornish names Cornish words Cornishmen Cove Croft crow Cruk dialect Doublebois downs Dwelling dyke Dynas eglos eldertrees English enys Fair valley Farm Fenten field flat stone ford gelly Gorgy grove Guethenoc gwyn Headland heath or promontory Helston hill Eng hill-fort Holy place House isolated place Jack Clemo Kelly Kernow Kestle L.ROWE Legh Linkinhorne Little Logh Looe Luxulyan marsh meadow meaning melyn Meneth Merther Methros Middle mill moor Morvah mound or barrow Name of parish nans Nans-tek nook noweth parish saint Pedn pers personal name place of St place-names pons pool Porth poss possibly Praze probably Eng Redruth rock-pile Saun Sea-lake spring St Petroc stream Towan vean Venton Veor village Voose vyghan Wartha Wheal White wood