Wheal Montague (EN) / Hwel Montague (KW)

Type: 
Historic Site
Parish: 
Redruth
Hundred: 
Kerrier
Elements: 

hwel

Meaning: 
works, mine

Montague

This refers to the name of a person: 
name
Elements notes: 
ECF: <hwel> ‘mine, workings’ + <Montague> Geographic Family Name of French origin
Historic forms: 
Wheal Montague 1841 (field)(Treleigh)(TA3276, 1841) Wheal Montague Close 1841 (field)(Duncef’s Tenement and Higher Wood Croft)(TA2763, 1841) Wheal Montague Land 1841 (field)(Plainangwarry)(TA2783, 1841) Montague 1884 (Mr George Hicks. An old mine)(Symons, 1884) Wheal Montague 1908 (copper disused)(OS, 1908)