petrock's-stow

Updated: May 18, 2025

It will be seen that this chronicle of Tregeagle carries him back to the time of Petrock, the patron saint of Padstow, whose name is a corruption of Petrock's-stow. Little Petherick, sometimes called St. Petrock Minor, is thought to be a corruption of the same name.

Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon - The Cornwall Coast