Boscean Mine (EN) / Hwel Bosseghan (KW)

Type: 
Infrastructure
Parish: 
St Just
Hundred: 
Penwith
Elements: 

hwel

Meaning: 
works, mine

bos

Meaning: 
dwelling

seghan

Meaning: 
dry/waterless place
Elements notes: 
<hwel> 'mine, works' + <bos> ‘dwelling’ + <seghan> ‘dry / waterless place’.
Historic forms: 
Boscean Mine 1883 (Tin, Disuded) (OS,1883) Boscean 1884 (tin mine) (Symons, 1884)(Bond, 2009) Boscean Mine (Tin, Disused) 1909 (OS, 1909) Boscean Mine (Tin, Disused) c.1944 (OS, c.1944) Boscean Mine 2012 (HER42706, 2012)