Reperry (EN) / Resberi (KW)

Type: 
Settlement
Parish: 
Lanivet
Hundred: 
Pydarshire
Elements: 

beri

Meaning: 
kite (bird)

res

Meaning: 
ford
Elements notes: 
<res/rys> ‘ford’ + <beri> ‘kite’
Historic forms: 
Redperi 1181 (Gover, 1948) Redperi 1189 (Gover, 1948) Resperi 1284 (Gover, 1948) Respery 1300 (Gover, 1948) Repery 1519-20 (N.A. – AR/2/279) Respery 1571 (Weatherhill, 2014) Repery 1515 (Weatherhill, 2014) Repery 1545 (Weatherhill, 2014) Respere 1550-65 (Weatherhill, 2014) Lepery 1584 (Weatherhill, 2014) Resperie 1653/4 (N.A. – AR/20/58) Repery 1723/4 (N.A. – AR/4/1175) Mill 1832 (Boundary Commision Report, 1832) Reperry 1851 (Census 1851) Resperry Mill 1851 (Census 1851) Treperry 1856 (OS 1856) Mill 1856 (OS 1856) Reperry Cross 1881 Reperry (On Site of a Manor House) 1888 (OS 1888) Reperry Mill (corn) 1888 (OS 1888) Reperry Cross (Cross) 2014 (OS 2014) Reperry Manor Farm 2014 (OS 2014)