Meaning:
?Obscure
Penzance Battery (EN) / Gonnva Pennsans (KW)
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Elements notes:
ECF: <gonnva> ‘battery’ {<gonn> ‘gun’ + <-va> ‘place’} + <Pennsans> place name – Penzance {<penn> ‘headland, head, end’ + <sans> ‘holy’}
Historic forms:
Battery 1740 (Pool, The History of the Town and Borough of Penzance, 1974, p. 106)
Penzance Battery Three 24 Pounders 1809 (Hewitt, John; 1809)