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gravel; or from Pengreep in Gwennap, from pen-greab, -crib, the head of the rock.

PENGUICK. From Penkuke in Gennys; from pen-kuke, -guik, the head village, or the head of the village.

PENGULLY. See Pengelly.

PENHALE, PENHALL. From Penhale, the name of places in Davidstow, Duloe, Gwinear, Ladock, Lanivet, and the Luxulion, and of a manor in Perranzabuloe; from pen-hâl, head of the moor. Hals says, "In Domesday, Eyles-kerry (1087) was taxed under the name of Pen-hall-an, now Penheale, then and still the voke-lands of a considerable manor." Tonkin calls it Penhele or Penhale, which he renders the head of the river. Penhell and Penheale are doubtless the same name. Cf. Penhallow.

PENHALIGON, var. PENELIGAN, PENLIGAN. From pen-helygan, the head of the willows. Cf. Penhellick.

PENHALL. See Penhale.

PENHALLINYK. From pen-elin-ick, the head of the angular place; or pen-elan-ick, the head off the place of elms. Warin Penhallinyk was Prebendary of the monastery of Penryn, Rector of St. Just in Roseland, Vicar of Wendron and of the adjoining parish Stithyans. Cf. Penalmick.

PENHALLOW. From an estate in Philleigh, where the family dwelt from temp. Edw. III. till the middle of the 18th century; also the appellation off places in Newlyn and Perranzabuloe. The name is derived from pen-hallow, the head of the moors. Cf. Penhale.

PENHALURICK. From Penhalurick, which Polwhele renders the head of the rich moors (perhaps pen-hâl-rik).

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