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Lelant.

A coastal village in St Ives parish, western Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW5437).

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  1. A coastal village in St Ives parish, western Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW5437).

Where this word comes from

From Cornish Lannanta, from lann Anta (“church-site of Anta”), from Proto-Brythonic *llann (“churchyard”). Anta was a Cornish saint, whose name was transcribed by Cornish historian Charles Henderson as British Latin Anta, Ansa.

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