Burncoose

Burncoose
Cornish: *Broncoosp*
Burncoose Cornish: Broncoosp;
	Camborne Redruth Community Hospital, Burncoose
	Burncoose Location within Cornwall
OS grid reference	SW741395
Civil parish	Gwennap;
Unitary authority	Cornwall;
Ceremonial county	Cornwall;
Region	South West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	REDRUTH
Postcode district	TR16
Dialling code	01872
Police	Devon and Cornwall
Fire	Cornwall
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	Truro and Falmouth;
	List of places UK England Cornwall 50°12′43″N 5°09′58″W / 50.212°N 5.166°W

Burncoose is a hamlet near Gwennap in west Cornwall, England; Burncoose lies on the A393 road, 4 miles (6.4 km) south-east of Redruth.^[1]^[2] It was first recorded in 1277 as Burncoys, an anglicized name from the Cornish Broncoos, meaning "wood hill".^[3]

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^ Google (8 January 2016). "Burncoose" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
^ Ordnance Survey One-inch Map of Great Britain; Truro and Falmouth, sheet 190. 1961
^ Weatherhill, Craig (2009) A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-names. Westport, Mayo: Evertype; p. 26

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