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Coordinates: 50°06′46″N 5°16′12″W / 50.1129°N 5.2701°W / 50.1129; -5.2701
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Water-Ma-Trout is a road and an industrial estate on the northern edge of Helston in west Cornwall, England.

Theories about its name are:

  • That its name started as Cornish dialect English for "wet my throat", here used as a name for a dry field.[1]
  • Earlier: that this name is a corruption of "waterman route", due to it being near the water supply towards one of the sources of the River Cober.
  • That the name derives from a corruption of Welter-ma (from "wheal" and "man") and "Trout", the name of the miner.[2]

Industry

A range of industries are based around the estate, such as the scuba gear factory A.P.Diving and Helston Gunsmiths.

References

  1. ^ Craig Weatherhill, Cornish Place Names & Language
  2. ^ name="Martin Matthews" (Helston historian)

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50°06′46″N 5°16′12″W / 50.1129°N 5.2701°W / 50.1129; -5.2701

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