Penpont, Cornwall

Penpont is a hamlet in the parish of St Breward, in north Cornwall, England, UK, in the Camel Valley.[1][2]

There is also a place called Penpont near Wadebridge. The meaning of Penpont is "end of the bridge".[3]

References
  1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 Newquay & Bodmin (Camelford & St Austell) (Map). Ordnance Survey. ISBN 978-0-319-22938-5.
  2. Ordnance Survey (1961) One-inch Map of Great Britain: Bodmin and Launceston, sheet 186
  3. Weatherhill, Craig (2009). A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names. Westport, Co. Mayo: Evertype. ISBN 9781904808220; p. 54


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