Town Wastrel (EN) / Tirwast an Dre (KW)

Type: 
Infrastructure
Parish: 
Penzance
Hundred: 
Penwith
Elements: 

an

Meaning: 
the

tir

Meaning: 
land

tre

Meaning: 
farmstead, settlement

wast

Meaning: 
waste
Elements notes: 
ECF: <tir> ‘land’ <wast> ‘waste’ + <an> ‘the’ + <tre> ‘town, farmstead’
Historic forms: 
Town Wastrel 1810/11 (Pool, The History of the Town and Borough of Penzance, 1974, p. 81)