Morrep — the low-lying land near the sea — and Guendran or Gueindarn — the less fertile uplands

Borlase next describes a most interesting division of the parish
into Morrep — the low-lying land near the sea — and Guendran or
Gueindarn — the less fertile uplands (Cornish morrep, seaboard, from
mor, sea, and gunran, from gun, down, moor, ran, part).   He says that
this distinction was made in most parishes of West Cornwall with
similar topography to Ludgvan ; his elder contemporary Tonkin describes
( M S . Parochial History at R.I.C. I 460) the Manor of Lanisley in Gulval
as extending " from the Moreps to the Gundrons, that is from above the
sea to the hills," and the name " Morrab " still survives as that of part of
the town of Penzance above the modern promenade.   Borlase states that
in few parishes was the division more distinctly marked out than Ludgvan.
The bound was a small stream rising at Chellew well and joining
Vellanoweth water and eventually the Lyd ;   14 tenements west of this
formed the Morrep, the remaining 19 to the east, the Guendran.   The
division was " more noted anciently, when the old Cornish pastimes of
hurling and wrestling prevailed, than at present; and in the memory of
man the Guendran used to hurle and wrestle against the Morrep, and
vice-versa, with as much eagerness, and attachment to their division, as
one parish did, and still does, wrestle and hurle against another."

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