Bussow Vean (EN) / Bosow Vian (KW)

Type: 
Settlement
Parish: 
Towednack
Hundred: 
Penwith
Elements: 

bian

Meaning: 
little

bosow

Meaning: 
dwellings
Elements notes: 
<bosow> 'dwellings' + <bian> 'little'
Historic forms: 
Bussow Vean 1842 (CRO, TA/226, 1842) Bussow Vean 1979 (site of non-extant culverhouse)(Robertson and Gilbert, 1979, p40)