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The Little Barn Café, Trevescan

Trevescan is a hamlet in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated between the village of Sennen and the settlement at Land's End, 8 miles (13 km) west of Penzance.[1]

The name is Cornish and could mean tre (hamlet) + personal name Bescan which means "little short one", or could be a corruption of heskyn, ″sedge″ or ″marsh″. Previous spellings of the name include, Trefescan (1302), Trevescan (1310), Trevascan (1327) and Treviscan (1343).[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Ordnance Survey One-inch Map of Great Britain; Land's End, sheet 189. 1961
  2. ^ Reaney, P. H. The Origins of English Place-Names (1980 ed.). Routledge and Kegan Paul. p. 67.
  3. ^ Pool, P A S (1985). The Place-Names of West Penwith (Second ed.). Heamoor: Peter Pool. p. 76.

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