Tremenhere (EN) / Tremenhir (KW)

Type: 
Settlement
Parish: 
St Keverne
Hundred: 
Kerrier
Elements: 

menhir

Meaning: 
long stone, standing stone

tre

Meaning: 
farmstead, settlement
Elements notes: 
<tre> ‘farmstead, settlement’ + <menhir> ‘longstone, standing stone’
Historic forms: 
Tremanher 1297 (Henderson) Tremaenhyr 1311 (Henderson) Tremanhyr 1312 (Gover, 1948) Tremynhyer 1543 (CRO, AD1822/1, 1543) Tremenhere 1699 (Gascoyne, 1699) Tremenheer 1748 (Martyn, 1748) Treminheere 1842 (TA, 1842) Tremenheer 1856 (OS, 1856) Tremenheer 1884 (83 acres)(Symons, 1884) Tremenhere 1888 (OS, 1888) Tremenhere 1908 (OS, 1908) Tremenhere Gate 1909 (Mitchell, 1909) Tremenhere c.1913 (Diggens, c.1913) Tremenheere 1948 (Gover, 1948) Tremenhere 2016 (OS, 2016)