Sandy Bottom (EN) / Hal Dreth (KW)

Type: 
Topographical Feature
Parish: 
St Austell
Hundred: 
Powder
Elements: 

hal

Meaning: 
marsh, moor

treth

Meaning: 
beach
Elements notes: 
EMF: Cornish Dialect<bottoms> ‘marsh, moor’ + Eng<sandy>ECF: <hal> ‘marsh, moor’ + <treth> ‘sand’
Historic forms: 
Sandy-Bottom 1884 (Symons, 1884) (Bond, 2009) Sandy Bottom 1888 (OS 1888) Sandy Bottom 2014 (OS 2014)