Varses [rocks] (EN) / Men Fos (KW)

Type: 
Coastal Feature
Parish: 
St Keverne
Hundred: 
Kerrier
Elements: 

fos

Meaning: 
wall

men

Meaning: 
stone
Elements notes: 
<men> ‘stone’ + <fos> ‘wall, dyke, bank’
Historic forms: 
Meanvose 1813 (Weatherhill) Maen Voces 1851 (Weatherhill) Meanvose 1866 (Weatherhill) Varses 1888 (OS, 1888) Varses 1908 (OS, 1908) Varses 1948 (Gover, 1948) Varses 2016 (OS, 2016)