Wheal Menear (EN) / Hwel Menhir (KW)

Type: 
Infrastructure
Parish: 
St Austell
Hundred: 
Powder
Elements: 

hwel

Meaning: 
works, mine

men

Meaning: 
stone

hir

Meaning: 
long, high
Elements notes: 
<hwel> 'mine, works' + <men> ‘stone’ + <hir> ‘tall, stone’
Historic forms: 
Wheal Menear (Tin) 1888 (OS 1888)