Spit Point (EN) / Penn an Beg (KW)

Type: 
Coastal Feature
Parish: 
St Blaise
Hundred: 
Powder
Elements: 

an

Meaning: 
the

beg

Meaning: 
spit of land

penn

Meaning: 
head, end, top
Elements notes: 
EMF: OWS<spitu> ‘narrow point of land’ + OWS<pointe> from OF<point> from Latin <puncta>ECF: <penn> ‘headland, head, end’ + <an> ‘the’ + <beg> ‘spit of land’
Historic forms: 
North Point 1794 Weatherhill Spit Point 1866 Weatherhill Spit Point 1974 (OS 1:50,000 First Series, 1974) Spit Point 2014 (OS 2014)