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PENBETHY. (A name found in the United States.) From Penbetha or Penberthy, q. v.

PENCAROW, PENCARROW. From an estate in Eylos-Hayle, which had an old family of gentlemen of its own name as owners down to the reign of Henry VII. (Hals.) There is or was a village called Pencarow in Advent. Hals, after referring to another etymology, "pen-carou, pen-caro, alias pen-carow, i.e., head deer of chief deer, formerly part of the Peverells' deer-park, and from thence so denominated as some think," considers the name to be "from pen-caer-ou or pen-caer-ow, i.e., my head castle or city, intrenched or fortified place, according to the artificial and natural circumstances thereof, it being on a hill overlooking the contiguous country." Tonkin says, "I take the name of Pencarrow to be of a much more ancient fate than the first bringing of deer into this land, and that the name is taken from the natural circumstances of the place, as compounded of pen-car-ow, head-rock-ry; for in this place is digged a quarry of bright clear freestone, that works with tool, plane, or hammer, equal to any other in Cornwall, as may be seen by the beautiful house Sir John Molesworth has built with it, &c." Pen-carew would translate the head place of the deer; pen-carau, the stag's head; pen-carrow, the head of the rock; pen-carrog, the head of the brook.

PENCAVEL. See Penkevil.

PENCOLL. From Pencoll in St. Enodor; from pen-col, the head of the ridge, or of the promontory (col for kil). Hals renders Pencoll or Pencooth "the head wood, a name also of old, taken from the ancient natural circumstances of the place."

PENCOOSE. From Pencoose in Kenwyn, or Pencoose in Perran Arwarthal; from pen-cus, the head of the wood.