page_title: Boduel
section_title: Etymology
hierarchical_section_title: Boduel / Etymology
caption_attribution_description: English: The One Inch to the mile Popular Edition of Ordnance Survey maps were a complete new issue just after the Second World War. As Crown Copyright is for a term of 50 years, these are now in the Public Domain. This image is take from a scan of a map in my possession, cleaned up and corrected.
context_page_description: Boduel is a hamlet in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated west of Moorswater, one mile west of Liskeard in the civil parish of Dobwalls and Trewidland.
context_section_description: The meaning of the name is uncertain. "Bod" is almost certainly the old Cornish form of bos, "dwelling-place". "-uel" may come from heuul (sunshine) or hewel (visible, obvious); either of which work because the area is a hill ridge running roughly west–east. "House of Sunshine" seems the most likely interpretation. "Huel" is a variant of "whel", a mine; so it might be thought that it could be "House near a mine" or something similar; but the geology of the area is totally unsuitable for mining (the nearest mining areas are at Caradon, some miles distant). Current and disused stone quarries are in the area, but "whel" or "huel" were never used for quarries.
caption: Boduel on the 1940s Ordnance Survey Popular Edition One Inch to the Mile map. Boduel can be seen about 4.5 km from the west edge of the map, 2+ km from the north.
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