Meaning:
a type of rowing boat
Wherry Town (EN) / Trehweri (KW)
Type:
Parish:
Hundred:
Elements notes:
EMF: <wherry> ‘type of boat’ + <tun> ‘homestead’ECF: <tre> ‘farmstead’ + Eng.<hweri> ‘wherry’ respelt in SWF
Historic forms:
Wherrytown 1884 (Gover, 1948)
Wherrytown 1974 (Pool, The History of the Town and Borough of Penzance, 1974, p. 75)
Wherry Town 1974 (OS 1974)
Wherry Town 1995 (OS 1995)
Wherrytown 2014 (Appleby, 2014, p. 28)
English (1)
Cornish (1)