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ated with Wiltshire and Hampshire." Pen-ruddock would signify the hill of the robin redbreast; but the name is more probably from pen-rydh-ick, the place of the red promontory; or pen-ryd-ick, the head of the ford place.

PENTER. See Pentire.

PENTINE. From pen-tin, -din, the head of the fortified place; or from the manor of Pentuan in Mevagissey; or Pentwan or Pentuan in St. Austell; both from pen-towan, -tuan, -tuyn, the head of the sand banks.

PENTIRE. From Pentire in Endellion; from pen-tîr, the headland. "The manor of Pentuan (in Mevagissey) was the property, and its barton the chief seat, of the Pentires, after they removed from Pentire in Endellion." (D. Gilbert.) Penter is the same surname. Penter's Cross is the appellation of a village in Pillaton, in East hundred.

PENTQUIT. See Penniket.

PENTREATH. From pen-treath, the head of the sea-shore.

PENULARICK. See Penhalurick.

PENVER. From pen-veor, the great head.

PENWARDEN. From pen-warth-en, the high head or hill.

PENWARN, PENWARNE. From Penwarn in Mawnan, or Penwarn in Mevagissey; from pen-warn, the head of he alder-trees.

PENWARVERELL, or PENWORVERELL. From pen-gavar, the goat's head, or the head of the goat's place. Pryce renders the local name Polwheverell, the kids' pool.

PENWITH. From the hundred of Penwith, which Camden renders "the left-hand promontory." Others derive the name from pen-guith, -guydh, the most conspicuous high

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