use since the time of the kingdom of Dumnonia. The name Penquit is first attested in 1238, as Pencoyt; it derives from the words that survive in modern Welsh as penn ("head, top, summit, end") and coed ("wood"). Thus it once meant "end of the wood".

History

Ermington appears in the Domesday Book as a royal manor. By 1270 the manor house of Strashleigh was the home of the Strashleigh family, also written Stretchleigh, until the heiress Christina

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