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Recorders
report 6th March 2010
Here are a
few names and definations.
NORTH
Trewint
(Poundstock)
Trewynt 1301
Trewent 1336
Windy
Farm Tae an Gwyns
(Gwynt) with mutation of gw to w
MID
Sticker
(St Mewan) Stekyer 1319
Stykker 1389
Tree
stump and yer with vowel affection of O to E
Note
the wood of Stekyer in 1395
WEST
St
just (Lanuste 14th century)
Lan Ust
St
Just enclosure
The
parish saint was an early Celtic priest called Yestin
Mac Watters
Recorder.
In
his book "A Guide to Cornish Place-Names" Morton
Nance one of the founders of Old Cornwall wrote the
following:
"A book to contain every recorded place-name of
Cornwall, with all the changes, some quite beyond
imagination, that they have undergone, and especially with a
meaning past dispute given to each one, is a work this world
will never see. Who is, or ever will be, capable of
interpreting more than a very modest portion of our names
with certainty, and if such a wizard were found, who would
print a book so expensive that no one in Cornwall could
afford its price?"
Chris Bond
is a member of Camborne Old Cornwall Society and has taken
on the task referred to by Morton Nance and publishing it on
a web site and also in book form. There is a link from this
site to his from the main page and I know that you will find
his site of value in understanding the place names of
Cornwall. My thanks to Chris for agreeing to the link being
placed on the site.
I hope to
have a report from Mac shortly to tell us what if any news
he has.
George
Pritchard (web master)
"Cuntelleugh
an brewyon us gesys na vo kellys travyth"
(Gather
up the fragments that are left that nothing be lost.)
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