Vellyndruchia [mill] (EN) / Melin Droghya (KW)

Type: 
Historic Site
Parish: 
Madron
Hundred: 
Penwith
Notes: 
Site of a post-medieval fulling mill
Elements: 

melin

Meaning: 
mill

troghya

Meaning: 
to immerse
Elements notes: 
<melin> ‘mill’ + <troghya> ‘fulling’
Historic forms: 
Mellandruckia 1842 (tenement)(TA133 1842) (Pool, 1985) (CRO, TA/133, 1842) (Bond, 2009) Velandrutha 1757 (*CRO, P133/12/1, 1757) (Bond, 2009) Velandructia 1782 (*CRO, P133/5/1, 1782) (Bond, 2009) Vellandruchia Farm 1929 (*CRO, DG/219, 1929) (Bond, 2009) Vellyndruchia 1995 (OS 1995)