Etymology The place name is a reference to local lime oasts. The earliest reference is to Les Lymhostes, in 1356. The verb is a reference to a speech made there by the Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George in 1909.
In a number of parishes tithe was due on mills, and, at Fowey, on limehouses, but only for coppice wood.1974, Richard Potts, A Calendar of Cornish Glebe Terriers, 1673-1735, page xviii: