St Lawrence (EN) / S. Laurens (KW)

Type: 
Settlement
Parish: 
Bodmin
Hundred: 
Triggshire
Notes: 
St Lawrence Domesday spelling lan laram 1086. The leper hospital was also recorded as St Lawrence de Ponteboy. From French pont en bois ‘wooden bridge’.
Elements: 

Laurens

This refers to the name of a person: 
name

sen/synt

Meaning: 
saint
Elements notes: 
<sen/synt> 'saint' + <Laurens> personal name
Historic forms: 
St Laurence 1288 S. Laurencius 1374 Seynt Laurens 1380 Seyntlaurence 1444 Seyntlaurens 1480 Seyntlaurens 1499 St Laurence c.1540 St Lawrens 1565 St Lawrens 1574 St Laurence 1606 St Larrance 1715