Penmarc Lane in Hoon Hay – nothing on library website yet the houses here were built in 1970s. Only two entries on Papers Past and one was a death notice and the other was a wedding anniversary notice. I couldn’t find a meaning for the name and the nearest that I found was a Breton word for horse head. There is a place in France called Penmar’h. I then used a book that I was given called A Dictionary of British Place Names and found it. There is a place in Wales called Penmark and it was originally Penmarc and Penmarch. Meaning is Height of the horse and from the Welsh pen + march. The Breton word and the Welsh word have a similar meaning. When I saw the street my first thought was that is was named after a Welsh or Cornish village.
This is a very narrow street with no footpath and I didn’t walk the full length as it just leads into private driveways.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 