Tol Pedn means holed Headland and evidently refers to the Funnel, a great chasm a hundred feet in depth and eight feet in diameter, cut out as if by a giant cheese-scoop down to the roaring sea.
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton
All this wide area of country is blasted and harrowed and holed with monstrous pits.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
Beyond were some holed walls called Nameless Farm, and these were captured before the call of "cease firing," which was the signal for the party to halt while our guns began a new bombardment over the new line of attack.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs