Wheal Buller (EN) / Hwel Buller (KW)

Type: 
Historic Site
Parish: 
Redruth
Hundred: 
Kerrier
Elements: 

Buller

This refers to the name of a person: 
name

hwel

Meaning: 
works, mine
Elements notes: 
ECF: <hwel> ‘mine, workings’ + <Buller> English Family Name
Historic forms: 
Wheal Buller 1841 (field)(Trewirgie)(TA1465, 1841) Wheal Buller 1884 (tin and copper mine, part of Buller and Basset Consols in 1884)(Symons, 1884) Wheal Buller 2015 (OS, 2015)