Place Names 7
When land was cleared for farming a grove kelly
or a copse prisk or pris of trees was often left, giving
rise to some place names. You can see how some names with similar beginnings
ended up quite differently:
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Kelly
|
grove
|
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Engelley
(Gilly
1404)
|
the grove
|
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Trengilly
(Trengelly
1309)
|
farm at
the grove
|
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Kellow
(Kelyou
1302)
|
groves
|
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Trengilliowe
|
the groves
farm
|
|
Callywith
(Kellegwyth
1276)
|
grove of
trees
|
|
Kelly Bray
(Kellibregh
c1286)
|
dappled
grove
|
|
Coldvreath
(Kellyvregh
1281)
|
dappled
grove
|
|
Gilly Gabben
(Killygam
1506)
|
crooked
grove
|
|
Gillywartha
|
higher
grove
|
|
Roskilly
|
coastal
slope with a grove
|
|
Cargelley
(Cargelly
1332)
|
grove fort
|
|
Clann
(Kellilan
1309)
|
grove at a
church enclosure
|
|
Kehelland
(Kellyhellan 1284)
|
grove at
Henlan disused church site
|
|
Nankelly
(Nanskelly
1330)
|
grove
valley
|
|
Pengelly
|
end/top of
a grove
|
|
Voskelly
|
wall/bank
by a grove
|
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Stephengelly
(Styrngelly 1313)
|
bend of a
grove
|
|
Cambrose
(Cambres
1286)
|
crook-grove/copse
|
|
Prideaux
(Pridias
c1180-1346)
|
?copses
|
Sometimes the type of tree in the grove or
copse is named, e.g.:
|
Prospidnick
(Pryspinik
1284)
|
pine
copse
|
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Presingoll
(Presencoll
1461)
|
the
hazel-trees copse
|
|
Kellygreen
(Keligren
1258)
|
aspen
grove
|
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Kelynack
|
holly
grove
|
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Pencalenick
(Penkelynnec
1296)
|
end
of a holly-grove
|
|
Trenglennick
(Tregelennek
1359)
|
holly-grove
farm
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