Kenneggy Downs

Coordinates: 50°06′46″N 5°24′16″W / 50.1129°N 5.4044°W / 50.1129; -5.4044 Kenneggy Downs is a hamlet on the A394 in Cornwall, UK. It is situated in the west of the civil parish of Breage, 5 miles (8.0 km) east of the town of Penzance.[1] On 3 September 1879 a tenement was sold by auction at Kanneggie Downs.[2] The hamlet contains a public house. Kenneggy Downs is north of the twin hamlets of Kenneggy.[1]

There is also a Kenegie at Gulval, near Penzance; Kenegy is Cornish for bogs.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7
  2. "Kanneggie For Sale". The Cornishman (58). 21 August 1879. p. 1.
  3. Pool, P A S (1985). The Place-Names Of West Penwith (Second ed.). Heamoor: P A S Pool.
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