Phernysick (EN) / Fornesek (KW)

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

fornes

Meaning: 
furnace

-ek

Meaning: 
suffix, abounding in
Elements notes: 
<fornes> ‘furnace’ + <ek> adjectival suffix – i.e. place abounding in furnaces
Historic forms: 
Pharnissick 1838 (TA 1838) Lower Pharnissick 1838 (TA 1838) Pharnissick 1884 (Symons, 1884) (Bond, 2009) Pharnyssick 1888 (OS 1888) Pharnyssick 1908 (OS 1908) Phernyssick 1932 (OS 1932) Phernysick c.1945 (Weatherhill, 2015) Phernysick Road 2015 (OS 2015)