Battery Rocks (EN) / Kerrek Gonnva (KW)

Type: 
Coastal Feature
Parish: 
Penzance
Hundred: 
Penwith
Notes: 
Named for the battery built there in 1740.
Elements: 

gonnva

Meaning: 
battery

kerrek

Meaning: 
rocks
Elements notes: 
<kerrek> 'rocks' + <gonnva> ‘battery’ {<gonn> ‘gun’ + <-va> ‘place’}
Historic forms: 
Battery Rocks 1888 (OS, 6”, 1888) (Bond, 2009) Battery Rocks 1995 (OS 1995)