Tolcarn Mill (EN) / Melin Talkarn (KW)

Type: 
Historic Site
Parish: 
Penzance
Hundred: 
Penwith
Notes: 
Mill now divided as flats
Elements: 

karn

Meaning: 
crag, tor, cairn

melin

Meaning: 
mill

tal

Meaning: 
brow
Elements notes: 
<melin> 'mill' + <tal> ‘brow’ + <karn> ‘crag, tor, cairn’
Historic forms: 
Tolcarne Mill 1639 (Pool, The History of the Town and Borough of Penzance, 1974, p. 36) Tolcarn Mill 1974 (Pool, The History of the Town and Borough of Penzance, 1974, p. 5)