Moorswater (EN) / Dowr an Hal (KW)

Type: 
Settlement
Parish: 
Liskeard
Hundred: 
West Wivelshire
Elements: 

an

Meaning: 
the

dowr

Meaning: 
water, river

hal

Meaning: 
marsh, moor
Elements notes: 
<dowr> 'water' + <an> 'the' + <hal> 'moor'
Historic forms: 
Moorswater 1825 (CRO-CA/B43/15, 1825) Moorswater 1884 (hamlet, railway station and viaduct, a new viaduct has been lately erected to supersede the first, which was badly built, and partly of wood) (Symons, 1884) Moorswater Lodge 1884 (J P Lyne, Esq.) (Symons, 1884) Moorswater Lodge 1887 (OS, 1887) Moorswater 1888 (OS, 1888) Moorswater 1907 (OS, 1907) Moorswater Lodge 1907 (OS, 1907) Moorswater Lodge 1945 (OS, 1945) Moorswater 1948 (Gover, 1948) Moorswater 2017 (CC Mapping, 2017)