BENNEY, BENNY. See Pen.
BESSAKE. See Bedack.
BESWARICK. From bos-war-ick, the house upon the rivulet.
BESWETHERICK. From bos-bither-ick, the house by the meadow place, or the house in the meadow by the creek. There is however a place in Constantine called Boswathick. From Boswetherick we may have by corruption Bosmetherick.
BEVETTO. From bo-veth, the dwelling by the grave; or bo-verth, the green house. Pryce renders Trevetho, in Lelant, the town of graves.
BEWES. From Mab or Ap-Hughes, son of Hughes. Cf. the Welsh name Bew, from Ap-hugh.
BICE. See Bose
BICTON. From manor in St. Eve held by the family in Norman times. (Gilbert.) The name, if of Cornish origin, may mean village on the hill, or the little enclosure.
BIDDICK. From bidn, vidn-ick, the meadow place. Fiddick, Fidick, Viddicks, are different orthographies of the same name.
BISCOE, BISCOW. From boscrou, the dwelling by the cross; or the same as Pasco, q.v.
BISSICKS. Most probably from Bissick, near Truro; from bez-ick, the place for birch-trees.
BLAMEY. From blaidh-mez, the wolf's meadow; or pleû-mêz, the parish meadow.
BLEKENNOCK. "Turris Blekennok ab antiquo prope Lastydyall nuper Hugonis Curtenay," is found in William of Worcester's Itinerary. The name may be from pleû-gonock, the downy parish; or from le-gonnoc, the downy place.
