Wheal Boys (EN) / Hwel an Boys (KW)

Type: 
Historic Site
Parish: 
Redruth
Hundred: 
Kerrier
Notes: 
The word <boyes> does appear in Cornish as a borrowing from English. It is found in the Cornish text – Bewnans Ke, line 40/10.
Elements: 

an

Meaning: 
the

boyes

Meaning: 
boys

hwel

Meaning: 
works, mine
Elements notes: 
ECF: <hwel> ‘mine, workings’ + <an> ‘the’ + <boyes> ‘boys’.
Historic forms: 
Wheale an Boyes 1677 (mine bounds) (RIC, HM/12/1, 1677) Wheal Boys 1884 (Symons, 1884)