Tresillian

see also Tresillian House
Tresillian
Roadsign in the village
Tresillian is located in Cornwall
Tresillian
Tresillian
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50°16′41″N 4°59′42″W / 50.278°N 4.995°W / 50.278; -4.995
Tresillian Bridge

Tresillian (Cornish: Tresulyan)[1] is a small village in the civil parish of St Clement, in mid Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is three miles (5 km) east of Truro on the A390 road. Tresillian means "a place of eels" in the Cornish language, according to a 19th-century writer.[2] However, modern toponymists[which?] agree that the name in fact translates as "farm/settlement of a man called Sulyen"[3] (a Celtic personal name from British: sulo-genos, "sun-born").

  1. ^ Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) Archived 2013-05-15 at the Wayback Machine : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel Archived 2013-05-15 at the Wayback Machine. Cornish Language Partnership.
  2. ^ Fox, Sarah Prideaux (1874). Kingsbridge Estuary: with rambles in the neighborhood. G. P. Friend. p. 54. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  3. ^ Craig Weatherhill (2009) A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names. Westport, Co. Mayo: Evertype ISBN 978-1-904808-22-0; p. 75