Gewans Shaft (EN) / Shafta an Gewan (KW)

Type: 
Infrastructure
Parish: 
St Austell
Hundred: 
Powder
Elements: 

shafta

Meaning: 
shaft (mine)

an

Meaning: 
the

kew

Meaning: 
enclosure, close

-an

Meaning: 
place suffix
Elements notes: 
<shafta> 'shaft' + <an> 'the' + <kew> 'enclosure' + <-an> place suffix
Historic forms: 
Gewans Shaft 1888 (OS 1888)