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Jolly's Bottom is in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately a half mile (1 km) north of Chacewater and straddles the main line railway.[1]
The settlement is in Chacewater civil parish and the births and burials from Jolly's Bottom residents are recorded in the Parish Registers.[2] The name Jolly's Bottom may have originated from a landholding by the Jolly family.[3]
References
- ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 Truro & Falmouth ISBN 978-0-319-23149-4
- ^ GENUKI website; Chacewater Archived 15 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved April 2010
- ^ White, Richard. "APPENDIX B: Selected Place-Names". The Chacewater Project website. Place-Names (Cornish). Archived from the original on 8 February 2005. Retrieved 8 April 2010. 'Killiwerris lies just to the east of the village and the township stretched from "the road to Mitchell" [Truro was not yet much of a place for travellers] to the ridgeway boundary with "Dutchy Land" and formerly lay in the parish of Kea and formed part of the Manor of Trelowith. ... The map of 1695 shows the common as some 460 acres of barren moor - but it was surely not, for one Charles Jolly held "¼ of Killyweres in Kea" in 1697 - presumably "Jolly's Bottom".' Name:Jolly's Bottom, Forms: OS [SW 749441], Meaning/Etymology: Jolly (pers) + Eng, Remark: Charles Jolly held "¼ of Killyweres in Kea" in 1697
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