More Bits of Late Cornish 7 (place names 2)

Place Names 2

Here are some place names containing coastal landscape features. Some are combined with other landscape feature terms. Some, such as als cliff, have been typically mangled:

Camels (Cammals 1359)	crooked cliff
Chenhalls (Chynals 1453)	house at the cliff
Holseer	long/tall cliff
Wheal Owles	cliff mine
Cligga Head (Clegar 1588)	crag
Carn Gribba (Carn Greeb 1862)	crest/reef crag[1]
Greeb Point (Greeb 1732)	the crest/reef
Angarrack	the rock
Caragloose Point	grey rock
Percuil (Porthcule 1613)	narrow cove
Mousehole (Porthenys 1310)	island cove
Porthbean	little cove
Loe Pool (la Loo 1377)	pool, inlet
Looe (Loo 1298)	inlet
Porth Loe	inlet cove
Portloe	deep water cove
Cotehele  (Cotheyle 1302)	wood by tidal flats
Hayle (Heyl 1265)	estuary with tidal flats
Perranporth (Tywarnheil 1303)[2]	manor on the tidal flats
Carn Towan	sand-dune crag
Upton Towans (Andrewartha 1586)	sand dunes at Andrewartha
Tywardreath (Tywardrait c1150)	manorial centre at a beach (or ferry)
Treath	ferry passage
Gwendra (Gwyndreth 1343)	white beach
Pendeen Vau (Pendene vowe 1584)	cave[3] at Pendeen

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[1]  "The Cribbar" is a wave, due to an off-shore reef,  that occurs off Newquay when Atlantic conditions are right. Popular with expert surfers.

[2] “ty” is an ancient version of chei. Even when it was no longer used in spoken language it was retained in manor names for reasons of prestige.

[3]  most place names referring to cave incorporate the alternative word gogow (f)