The question: see below!

Thanks for your comments and effort, Treeve! I thought Feock was south of Truro not up by Zelah. Presumably, this man has knowlege of the roads and junctions.

By the way, I apologise! I didn't know I had already put up that pic but I did also place on it the caption 'An unrelated question'. Did that not appear and I sent the wrong pic? Right! I've replaced it now!

The other pasties were to be had in Fore St., St Ives and so were these, denanmor!

As far as I am aware Boxheater as mentioned in 1871, was/is near Carnon Downs. If I am wrong these good people will tell me I am sure !! It is just that there is also a large instance of names of a foreign origin in Feock.

I have often pondered your original question tpp. In my mother's later years I took her to the butcher and she bought box heater. I'd never heard of this before, I took it to be the new butcher's alternative name for a cut my mother used to get from the butcher we had during my childhood. Then I saw the road junction...

My grandmother used an etter, heated on the slab, at home. Later when she became a laundress she had box etters.

And I suppose she was always dashing away with the box eter! My wife's an Ex-eter girl and I had a friend who was a Utox-eter!
Interesting first hand experience of the expression but, Chill, was the cut of beef known as 'boxeater' or 'box heater', I wonder. Perhaps the Boxheater Junction is a hot spot for hot rods, or the site of a former butchers!

Sounds like something they emmets would use,nothin like
a bit of skirt....

It's not to be found in the Chambers Dictionary whatever it is, welb!

Margaret Courtney in 1880 makes no mention of a boxeater in her Dictionary of West Cornwall Words, it is not in the dictionary of Archaic Words of 1850, Dr John Bannister however includes the place name Boxheater in his Glossary of Cornish Names 1871. A boxheater is specifically named as being used in 1830 (I will track down the source) in irons. Not in OED (but that is not a surprise these days). This here is a 'puppy with slippers' syndrome. I have other dictionaries and references. That boxeater looks and sounds like a cheap version of our decent bit of joint, I suspect it is Cock an eye.

Cock an eye

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? Pardon my ignorance!

In urban dictionary use, the origin of the area of the pearly people the Cockneys, stems from a possible point that they were a lively lot and rather took the mickey out of the gents, they would Cock an Eye at them. Whether or not it is true, is another matter but to apply to a whole region and group of people?

I'm with it! Thanks, Treeve! 'Cock a snook' plus, therefore !