Causewayhead (EN) / Pennkons (KW)

Type: 
Infrastructure
Parish: 
Penzance
Hundred: 
Penwith
Notes: 
This is on the road from Penzance to Madron, and evidently located where the paved road ceased and crossed the “town wastrel”.
Elements: 

kons

Meaning: 
causeway, route way

penn

Meaning: 
head, end, top
Elements notes: 
<penn> ‘head, end, headland’ + <kons> ‘causeway, paved way’
Historic forms: 
Caunsehead ???? (Pool, The History of the Town and Borough of Penzance, 1974, p. 70) Causewayhead 1750 (Pool, The History of the Town and Borough of Penzance, 1974, p. 101) Causeway Head 1810/11 (Pool, The History of the Town and Borough of Penzance, 1974, p. 81) Caunsehead c.1827 (Julyan, 1927) Causewayhead 1927 (Julyan, 1927) Causewayhead 1974 (Pool, The History of the Town and Borough of Penzance, 1974, p. 8) Causewayhead 2013 (Hope, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Recruitment Drive of 1899, 2013, p. 35) Causewayhead 2014 (Appleby, 2014, p. 26)