Pol Lawrance (EN) / Poll Arghans (KW)

Type: 
Coastal Feature
Parish: 
St Keverne
Hundred: 
Kerrier
Elements: 

arghans

Meaning: 
silver

poll

Meaning: 
pool
Elements notes: 
<poll> ‘pool, pit’ + <arghans> ‘silver’
Historic forms: 
Pollawrence (undated) (Weatherhill) Pollariance (undated) (Weatherhill) ??Hannah Lawrence 1805 (Resident at Treskewis) (Newton, 1981) Pol Lawrence 1888 (OS, 1888) Pol Lawrance 1908 (OS, 1908) Pol Laurence 1948 (Gover, 1948) Pol Lawrance 2016 (OS, 2016)