Tregustick (EN) / Tregeustek (KW)

Type: 
Parish: 
Hundred: 
Elements: 

trege

Meaning: 
? enclosed farm or settlement

Ustek

This refers to the name of a person: 
name
Elements notes: 
<trege> possibly ‘enclosed farm or settlement’ {<tre> ‘farmstead, settlement’ + <ke> ‘hedge’} + <Ustek> personal-name {cf. OW<Ustoc> (Gover, The Place-Names of Cornwall, 1948, p. 716)}
Historic forms: 
Tregustick (Withiel) SW 98 66 = Eve de Tregeustek 1322 (NA-AR/4/183/1) Laurence de Tregeustek 1322 (NA-AR/4/183/1) John Champyon de Tregeustek 1322 (NA-AR/4/183/1) Tregeustek 1326 (NA-AR/1/306/2) Tregeustek 1334 (*CRO, AR/20/1, 1334) (Gover, 1948) Tregeustek 1356 (Gover, 1948) Tregeustek 1369 (NA-AR/1/307) "corn-mill" (at Tregeustek) 1369 (NA-AR/1/307) Tregewesteck 1394 (Gover, 1948) Mill of Tregevstek 1421 (NA-AR/19/2) Tregevstek iuxta Tregollas 1421 (NA-AR/19/2) Tregeustek 1457 (Gover, 1948) Tregustick 1579/80 (NA-CM/422) Tregustiek 1748 (Martyn, 1748) Tregustick 1842 (TA, 1842) Higher Tregustick 1842 (TA, 1842) Tregustick 1884 {farm}(Symons, 1884) (Bond, 2012) Tregustick 1888 (OS, 1888) Higher Tregustick 1888 (OS, 1888) Tregustick 2015 (OS, 2015) Higher Tregustick 2015 (OS, 2015)