Lower Poltair (EN) / Polltir Woles (KW)

Type: 
Settlement
Parish: 
Penzance
Hundred: 
Penwith
Elements: 

poll

Meaning: 
pool

tir

Meaning: 
land
Elements notes: 
<pol> ‘pool, pit’ + <tir> ‘land’
Historic forms: 
Lower Poltear 1782 (*CRO, P133/5/1, 1782) (Bond, 2009) Lower Poltair c.1828 (The Gazette (London)) Lower Poltair 1884 (Symons, 1884) (Bond, 2009)