Menacuddle (EN) / Menydhgwydhel (KW)

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

menydh

Meaning: 
hill, mountain

gwydhel

Meaning: 
thicket, copse
Elements notes: 
<menydh> ‘hill, hillside’ + <gwydhel> ‘thicket, copse’
Historic forms: 
Menaquidal 1251 Menequidel c.1251 (NA - ART/1/1) Menedcudel 1284 Menecudel 1284 Menekudul c.1301 (NA C/143/34/13) Menkudel 1301 (Hammond, 1897, p. 17) Menecudel 1370 Menaquydell 1373 Menecudel 1374 Menacudell 1410 ?Mennageddell (field?)(St Austell Town) (Manor of Treverbyn Courtnay Survey, 1591) Menacuddle 1748 (Martyn, 1748) Menacuddle 1884 (Symons, 1884) (Bond, 2009) Mennacuddle 1884 (Symons, 1884) (Bond, 2009) Menacuddle 1888 (OS 1888) Mennacuddle 1948 Menacuddle Farm 2014 (OS 2014) Menacuddle Well 2014 (OS 2014)