Escalls

Also known as Escalls, Cornwall

Escalls () is a hamlet in the civil parish of Sennen on the Penwith peninsula in west Cornwall, England, UK.

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Instance of: village
Country: United Kingdom
Located in: Sennen
Elevation: 100.5
Time zone: UTC±00:00
Image: Escalls Methodist Chapel - geograph.org.uk - 104158.jpg
Dialing code: 01736

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Commons category: Escalls
historic county: Cornwall
P8168: Wallace Stegner
OS grid reference: SW 3661 2698

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Escalls () is a hamlet in the civil parish of Sennen on the Penwith peninsula in west Cornwall, England, UK.

==Toponyny== Escalls previously written as Heskels (in 1280 and 1481), Eskeles (1281) and Eskels (1296); possibly from hesk als meaning sedge cliff in the Cornish language.

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