Kerrier

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Kerrier Hundred

Kerrier is one of the ten hundreds of Cornwall, in the south-west of the county with those of Penwith to the west and north and Powdershire to the east. It had a population of 83,247 in 2011.

Kerrier includes the Lizard Peninsula and the lands both sides of the Helford River.

The name ‘Kerrier’ is thought by Charles Thomas to be derived from an obsolete name (ker hyr meaning long fort) of Castle Pencaire on Tregonning Hill, Breage.[1] It is likely that an even earlier name for the district was Predannack which has been displaced by the Lizard Peninsula as a geographical name.

Parishes in Kerrier hundred

References

  1. Thomas, Charles (1964) Settlement History in Early Cornwall: I; the antiquity of the hundreds (In: Cornish Archaeology. 3. St Ives: Cornwall Archaeological Society, pp. 70-79)
Hundreds of Cornwall

East Wivelshire • Kerrier • Lesnewth • Penwith • Powdershire • Pydershire • Isles of Scilly • Stratton • Triggshire • West Wivelshire