Copper Hill (EN) / Bregober (KW)

Type: 
Settlement
Parish: 
Redruth
Hundred: 
Kerrier
Elements: 

bre

Meaning: 
hill

kober

Meaning: 
copper
Elements notes: 
ECF: <bre> ‘hill’ + <kober> ‘copper’
Historic forms: 
Copper Hill 1844 (tenement)(CRO, TA/197, 1844) Copper Hill Tenement 1844 (tenement)(CRO, TA/197, 1844) Copper Hill 1884 (tin and copper mine, part of Buller and Basset Consols in 1884)(Symons, 1884) Copperhill 1884 (farm occupied by Richard Lawry, also mine)(Symons, 1884) Copper Hill Farm 2003 (OS, 1:25000, 2003) Copper Hill Farm 2015 (OS, 2015)