Trevescan
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thumb|The Little Barn Café, Trevescan Trevescan is a hamlet in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated between the village of Sennen and the settlement at Land's End, 8 miles (13 km) west of Penzance.
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- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Sennen
- Elevation
- 82.9
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
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- The Little Barn Café, Trevescan - geograph.org.uk - 886232.jpg
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- historic county
- Cornwall
- Commons category
- Trevescan
- OS grid reference
- SW 3563 2486
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thumb|The Little Barn Café, Trevescan Trevescan is a hamlet in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated between the village of Sennen and the settlement at Land's End, 8 miles (13 km) west of Penzance.
The name is Cornish and could mean tre (hamlet) + personal name Bescan which means "little short one", or could be a corruption of heskyn, ″sedge″ or ″marsh″. Previous spellings of the name include, Trefescan (1302), Trevescan (1310), Trevascan (1327) and Treviscan (1343).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Trevescan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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