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Boscawen
Well, let's do the where and how to pronounce it first! - All sounds very Gaelic Welsh to us but we’d be wrong.
It’s Cornish (the county of witches!), and located between Penzance and Lands End.
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Just before Sennen on the A30 on the way to Lands End, Cornwall
Whilst the source of the name is subject to conjecture (isn’t all history?), the widely accepted version is that the name derives from the Cornish ‘Bos’ which meant farm and or dwelling.
Combined with ‘Scawen’ which is ancient Cornish for an Elderberry tree.
The ûn on the end meant ‘next to’.
Put it all together and we have ‘The field next to the Farm with the Elderberry Tree’.
Pronouncing it is something else... We are going with Boss-cow-wen as that is how our Cornish friends say it and that's good enough for us.
And thus far, we haven’t even mentioned the stones!
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