Carnanton Mills (EN) / Melinyow Karnan (KW)

Type: 
Infrastructure
Parish: 
Mawgan-in-Pydar
Hundred: 
Pydarshire
Elements: 

karnan

Meaning: 
place of crag, tor, cairn

melinyow

Meaning: 
mills
Elements notes: 
<Melinyow> 'mills' + <karnan> ‘place of crag, tor, cairn’
Historic forms: 
Carnanton Mills 1840 [TA 1464] (CA 17, 1978, p123) Carnanton Mills 1884 (Symons, 1884)