Wheal Peevor (EN) / Hwel Pever (KW)

Type: 
Settlement
Parish: 
Redruth
Hundred: 
Kerrier
Elements: 

hwel

Meaning: 
works, mine

pever

Meaning: 
bright, fair
Elements notes: 
ECF: <hwel> ‘mine, workings’ + <pever> ‘bright, fair’
Historic forms: 
Wheal Peevor 1884 (mine, in the manor of Sinns)(Symons, 1884)