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> Thanks for that but Tre in Cornish is so common a prefix
> for place names that I think we have to go for the home
> or farmstead option.

I agree that it's unlikely that the 'tre' in this instance has the Welsh meaning, but it's not impossible. What we really need is an expert on the Cornish language. Has anyone got one of these, perhaps in the back of your broom cupboard or under the sink?

K x

Is it too obvious to point out that 'tri' as in 'three' is spectacularly close to 'tre'?

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Moth

What a happy coincidence that I just now looked in "The Origin of English Place Names" and under Cornwall it says "characteristic place-names...Those compounded with trev/tre 'homestead, village, town' very often... contain a personal name" but in a section on Celtic elements confirms Tremenheere as" trev.. by the menhir or long stone".