Our home, at Ednovean Farm was recorded on the 1812 Tithe Map, as Cot House Town place, standing opposite to a dwelling house and surrounded by three gardens. By 1870 the Dwelling house had vanished but is still remembered in the arched boundary to the Courtyard which represented the front of the house, whilst the gardens (probably productive vegetable plots) had been swept away. It has been suggested that the word Cot came from the West Saxon language although the Barn was later referred to in the deeds as the Mowhay a traditional Cornish storage barn for ricks.