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Cornish Place Names: How to Read Them
A plain guide to the building blocks of Cornish place names, how they are put together, and why spellings and meanings are often uncertain.
Places and Visiting
Buildings, Place Names and Words
Cornish buildings, how names are formed and a glossary of Cornish terms.
A Glossary of Cornish Terms
A short reference to widely known Cornish words and terms from mining, language, landscape and daily life, with notes that spellings and meanings vary.
Chapels and Churches of Cornwall
How Cornwall's nonconformist chapels, especially Methodist ones, stood beside the older parish churches and shaped community life, music and landscape.
Cornish Cottages and Granite Buildings
How local stone, slate, cob and lime shaped traditional Cornish houses, farms and village buildings, and what to look for when you walk past them.
Cornish English: Dialect Words and Sayings
An introduction to Cornish English, the dialect of English spoken in Cornwall, with a few well-known words and a note on respect, spelling and change.
Cornish Hedges as Living Walls
What a Cornish hedge is, how these stone-faced earth banks are built and cared for, and why they shelter such a rich range of wildlife.
Fish Cellars and Net Lofts
What fish cellars and net lofts were, how these working buildings were used around Cornish harbors, and how to recognize them when you visit.
Saints Names in Cornish Villages
Why so many Cornish villages carry the names of early saints, what a Lan or St name usually signals, and why the stories behind them are hard to verify.
Tre, Pol and Pen: Common Name Prefixes
What the Cornish name beginnings Tre, Pol and Pen generally mean, how to spot them on maps, and why spellings and meanings vary from place to place.
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