Penrose, Cornwall

Penrose House

Penrose (Cornish: Penros) is a house (in private ownership) and National Trust estate east of Porthleven, in the civil parish of Sithney, Cornwall, England, UK.[1][2] The estate includes Loe Pool and Loe Bar.

Though the name "Penrose" means 'head of the moor' (or according to Craig Weatherhill 'end/head of a hillspur') in Cornish this Penrose was formerly Penrose Methleigh (Penros Methle, 1367) i.e. 'end/head of a hillspur at Methleigh'.[3][4]

The Rev. John Rogers succeeded to the Penrose and Helston estates of about ten thousand acres (40 km²), comprising the manors of Penrose, Helston, Carminow, Winnianton, and various other estates in Cornwall, including several mines in February 1832 on the death of his father.[5] The Penrose lands had been acquired in 1770 by his grandfather, Hugh Rogers, and the Helston in 1798 by his father. Rogers died at Penrose on 12 June 1856, and was buried at Sithney.

There are seven other places named Penrose in Cornwall, in the parishes of Breage, Budock, Luxulyan, Sennen, St Breward (Penrose Burden), St Columb and St Ervan.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ Maps (Map). Google Maps.
  2. ↑ Ordnance Survey get-a-map SW6403325820
  3. ↑ Weatherhill, Craig (2009). A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names. Westport, Co. Mayo: Evertype. ISBN 9781904808220; p. 54
  4. ↑ "Lexicon cornu-britannicum". Books.google.co.uk. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  5. ↑ A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, John Burke, 1833, p. 299 accessed 14 December 2007
  6. ↑ Weatherhill, Craig (2009). A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names. Westport, Co. Mayo: Evertype. ISBN 9781904808220; p. 54
  7. ↑ "Penrose Burden - Bodmin, Cornwall". Penroseburden.com. Retrieved 7 January 2015.

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