Wheal Sparrow Mine (EN) / Hwel Golvan (KW)

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

golvan

Meaning: 
sparrow

hwel

Meaning: 
works, mine
Elements notes: 
<hwel> ‘mine, workings’ <golvan> ‘sparrow’
Historic forms: 
Wheal Sparrow 1841 (field)(Kurkanowan)(TA1674, 1841)