Lower Boscean Mine (EN) / Hwel Bosseghan Woles (KW)

Type: 
Infrastructure
Parish: 
St Just
Hundred: 
Penwith
Elements: 

hwel

Meaning: 
works, mine

bos

Meaning: 
dwelling

seghan

Meaning: 
dry/waterless place

goles

Meaning: 
lower
Elements notes: 
<hwel> 'mine, works' + <bos> ‘dwelling’ + <seghan> ‘dry / waterless place’ + <goles> lower'
Historic forms: 
Lower Boscean Mine (Tin, Disused) 1888 (OS, 1888) Lower Boscean Mine (Tin, Disused) 1908 (OS, 6”, 1908) (Bond, 2009) Lower Boscean Mine (Tin, Disused) c.1945 (OS, c.1945)