Lesquite Mine (EN) / Hwel Lostkoos (KW)

Type: 
Infrastructure
Parish: 
Lanivet
Hundred: 
Pydarshire
Notes: 
Amended from Bal Lostkoos to Hwel Lostkoos
Elements: 

hwel

Meaning: 
works, mine

lost

Meaning: 
tail

koos

Meaning: 
woodland
Elements notes: 
<hwel> 'workings, mine' + <lost> ‘tail’ + <koos> ‘wood’
Historic forms: 
Lesquite Mine (Tin, Disused) 1888 (OS 1888) Lesquite Mine 1909 (Ussher, Barrow, & MacAlister, 1909)