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Hi Jon. Thanks for the explanation. They had to be objects commonly encountered. The hills here are something else but the views more than make up for them. Now all we need to sort out are these pesky visitors from other parts of Britain that flock to Cornwall on holiday and hog the roads.
5 years agoAs I'm a native West Country lad: "Pen" means settlement or town; "Tre" means (perhaps unsurprisingly) a hill. Others to watch out for are "towan" (meaning "sands"), "porth" (meaning "port") and "pol" meaning "lake". My mother lives on Penpol road, which is about as Cornish as it gets...
5 years agoThanks Mike!
5 years agoThat pesky spell checker again- change one to ons!
Mike
Hi John, looks like we will be avoiding Dorset because we now catching the train down to Penzance. No chance of us avoiding those hills.
5 years agoHi Jean-Marc,
Lovely countryside, eh? Your reference to "Hastings" caught my eye: my father's people come from a few kms north of there, a place called Battle. That's where the Famous Unpleasantness of 1066 took place. His people were on the defensive side. Story has it that they were originally Jutes, from what is now the Denmark/Germany border country, and came to Sussex area around the 10th century.
Enjoy your ride--the good May weather is a good omen. Watch out for the hills in Dorset & Devon.
Best to you and Leigh,
John
That bit about Cornwall being overcrowded didn't come out right. It certainly wasn't meant to be so harsh and it would be safer to say that without so many tourists Cornwall would be a lot emptier. In particular, I was unprepared for how busy places like St Ives could be.
5 years ago