Penwith District

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Penwith

Penwith was a local government district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, whose council was based in Penzance. The district covered all of the Penwith peninsula, the toe-like promontory of land at the western end of Cornwall and which included an area of land to the east that fell outside the...

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Cornwall

Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...

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United Kingdom

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Battery Rocks

Battery Rocks

Battery Rocks are a rocky headland situated to the west of the harbour of Penzance, Cornwall, UK. The rocks take their name from a gun battery that was situated there from 1739, following a petition by Penzance Borough council for protection from French naval attacks.-History:Of the Battery, Craig...

, Penzance

Penzance

Penzance is a town, civil parish, and port in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. It is the most westerly major town in Cornwall and is approximately 75 miles west of Plymouth and 300 miles west-southwest of London...

, Bejouans, Boscaswell

Boscaswell

Boscaswell is a village in the extreme west of Cornwall in the United Kingdom.It lies towards the cliffs looking west from Pendeen. It is a village consisting mostly of granite terraced cottages with a council house estate. Some of the cottages used to house tin mining families who would be working...

, Boscawen-Un

Boscawen-Un

Boscawen-Un is a Bronze age stone circle close to St Buryan in Cornwall, UK. It consists of 19 upright stones in an ellipse with diameters 24.9m and 21.9m, with another, leaning, stone just south of the centre. There is a west-facing gap in the circle, which may have formed an entrance. It is...

, Bosporthennis

Bosporthennis

Bosporthennis is a hamlet on the Penwith peninsula in west Cornwall, United Kingdom....

, Bosvennen, Boswednack

Boswednack

Boswednack is a village in the parish of Zennor near the north coast of the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, United Kingdom....

, Botreah, Botallack

Botallack

The Botallack Mine is a former mine in Botallack in west Cornwall, United Kingdom.The village is in a former tin mining area situated between the town of St Just in Penwith and the village of Pendeen....

, Brea Cove, Crows-an-wra

Crows-an-Wra

Crows-an-Wra is a hamlet in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated in the civil parish of St Buryan approximately four miles northeast of Land's End....

, Carbis Bay

Carbis Bay

Carbis Bay is a village and seaside resort in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It lies one mile SE of St Ives on the west side of St Ives Bay on the Atlantic coast....

, Crowlas

Crowlas

Crowlas is a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated on the A30 about three miles east of Penzance and forms a small conurbation with Ludgvan "Lower Quarter", within the parish of the same name. The hamlet of Whitecross lies to the north....

, Chenhalls, Canon's Town

Canon's Town

Canonstown is a hamlet in Cornwall, UK situated on the A30 between Penzance and Hayle....

, Cape Cornwall

Cape Cornwall

Cape Cornwall is a small headland in Cornwall, UK. It is four miles north of Land's End near the town of St Just. A cape is the point of land where two bodies of water meet and until the first Ordnance Survey, 200 years ago, it was thought that Cape Cornwall was the most westerly point in...

, Carbis Bay

Carbis Bay

Carbis Bay is a village and seaside resort in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It lies one mile SE of St Ives on the west side of St Ives Bay on the Atlantic coast....

, Carnyorth

Carnyorth

Carnyorth is a hamlet in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is approximately one mile south of Pendeen and six miles northwest of Penzance....

, Chenhalls, Church Rock, Penwith

Church Rock, Penwith

Church Rock is a beach on the west coast of Cornwall, UK. It is close to St Just in Penwith.Access is via Porth Nanven beach, 500m along the coast to the north. At high tide access is a difficult climb down the cliff....

, Chypraze, Connor Downs

Connor Downs

Connor Downs is a village in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately two miles east of Hayle.The village straddles the old course of the A30 road but has now been bypassed. Facilities include a school , a petrol station and a fish-and-chip shop....

, Drift

Drift, Cornwall

Drift is a village in west Cornwall, United Kingdom.The village is in the civil parish of Sancreed approximately two miles west of Penzance and six miles from Land's End at...

, Cripps, Cribminjie

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Economy Cove, Escalls

Escalls

Escalls is a small village near Sennen on the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, United Kingdom.-External links:*...

, Folly Cove, Gulval

Gulval

Gulval is a village in the former Penwith district of Cornwall, United Kingdom. Although historically a parish in its own right, Gulval was incorporated into the parishes of Penzance, Madron and Ludgvan in 1934, and like Heamoor, is now considered to be a suburb of Penzance...

, Gwithian

Gwithian

beach2Gwithian is a coastal village in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated three miles northeast of Hayle and four miles east of St Ives, Cornwall across St Ives Bay....

, Gwynver, Hayle

Hayle

Hayle is a small town, civil parish and cargo port in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated at the mouth of the Hayle River and is approximately seven miles northeast of Penzance...

, Haldrine Cove, Kerris

Kerris

Kerris is a settlement in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated three miles southwest of Penzance in the civil parish of Paul. Kerris means "the fortified place" in the Cornish language....

, Kelynack

Kelynack

Kelynack is a settlement in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated on the Penwith peninsula approximately four miles north-northeast of Land's End and one mile south of St Just. Kelynack was mentioned in the Domesday book where it was listed as Chelenoc....

, Hal Dinas, Jonick

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Lamorna

Lamorna

Lamorna is a fishing village and cove in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated on the Penwith peninsula approximately four miles south of Penzance.-Newlyn School of Art and the Lamorna Colony:...

, Lamorna Cove, Lelant

Lelant

Lelant is a village in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on the west side of the River Hayle estuary about 2½ miles southeast of St Ives and one mile west of Hayle....

, Levant, Long Rock

Long Rock

Long Rock is a village in southwest Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately one mile east of Penzance and 1½ miles west of Marazion in the civil parish of Ludgvan.Long Rock is effectively an eastern suburb of Penzance...

, Ludgvan

Ludgvan

Ludgvan is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, UK. The village is situated 2½ miles northeast of Penzance.The parish includes the villages of Ludgvan, Crowlas, Canon's Town and Long Rock...

, Land's End

Land's End

Land's End is a headland and small settlement in west Cornwall, England, within the United Kingdom. It is located on the Penwith peninsula approximately eight miles west-southwest of Penzance....

, Lower Ninnes, Madron

Madron

Madron is a civil parish and village in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is a large rural parish on the Penwith peninsula north of Penzance.Madron village is situated approximately two miles northwest of Penzance town centre....

, Marazion

Marazion

Marazion is a civil parish and town in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated on the shore of Mount's Bay, two miles east of Penzance and one mile east of Long Rock.St Michael's Mount is half-a-mile offshore from Marazion...

, Morvah

Morvah

Morvah is a civil parish and village on the Penwith peninsula in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately eight miles west-southwest of St Ives and 5½ miles north-west of Penzance....

, Mousehole

Mousehole

Mousehole is a village and fishing port in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately 2½ miles south of Penzance on the shore of Mount's Bay.The village is in the civil parish of Penzance...

, Mount's Bay

Mount's Bay

Mount's Bay is a large, sweeping bay on the English Channel coast of Cornwall in the United Kingdom, stretching from the Lizard Point to Gwennap Head on the eastern side of the Land's End peninsula. Towards the middle of the bay is St Michael's Mount...

, Nancledra

Nancledra

Nancledra is a village in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is three miles south of St Ives and four miles north-northeast of Penzance. Nancledra is a small village with a population of around 150...

, Newlyn

Newlyn

Newlyn is a town and fishing port in southwest Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.Newlyn forms a conurbation with the neighbouring town of Penzance and is part of Penzance civil parish...

, Nanjizal

Nanjizal

Nanjizal is a beach and cove situated one mile to the south-east of Land's End, Cornwall, UK. Nanjizal has no direct access via road and is usually reached via the South West Coast Path by walking from Land's End, and so is often very quiet...

, Nanquidno

Nanquidno

Nanquidno is a place near St Just in Penwith in Cornwall, England, UK. It is about half a mile southwest of Kelynack....

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Paul

Paul, Cornwall

Paul is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated two miles south of Penzance and one mile south of Newlyn.The village of Paul is represented on Penzance Town Council...

, Pendeen

Pendeen

Pendeen is a village on the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is north-northeast of St Just and west of Penzance.The village has a community centre, a shop, a post office, a primary school, and a few small businesses. Community activities include an art club, silver marching band...

, Penzance

Penzance

Penzance is a town, civil parish, and port in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. It is the most westerly major town in Cornwall and is approximately 75 miles west of Plymouth and 300 miles west-southwest of London...

, Porthcurno

Porthcurno

Porthcurno is a small village in the parish of St. Levan located in a valley on the south coast of the county of Cornwall, England in the United Kingdom. It is approximately to the west of the market town of Penzance and about from Land's End, the most westerly point of the English mainland...

, Porthgwarra

Porthgwarra

Porthgwarra is a small coastal village in the civil parish of St Levan, Cornwall, UK situated between Land's End and Porthcurno. Access to the cove is via a minor road off the B3283 road at Polgigga and leads to the car park in the village. There is a public convenience, public telephone and small...

, Penberth

Penberth

Penberth is a coastal village and cove on the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately seven miles southwest of Penzance.Penberth Cove is one of the last remaining traditional fishing coves in Cornwall...

, Penberth Cove, Pendour Cove

Pendour Cove

Pendour Cove is a beach in Cornwall, UK. It is about 1 mile northwest of the village of Zennor, and immediately to the west of Zennor Head.The name originates from the Cornish 'pen' and 'dour' -Mermaid legend:...

, Pendower Cove, Pennance, Perran Downs, Phillack

Phillack

Phillack is a village in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately one mile northeast of Hayle and half-a-mile inland from St Ives Bay on Cornwall's Atlantic coast...

, Polgassick Cove, Polpry Cove, Porthchapel, Portheras Cove, Porthglaze Cove, Porthgwarra

Porthgwarra

Porthgwarra is a small coastal village in the civil parish of St Levan, Cornwall, UK situated between Land's End and Porthcurno. Access to the cove is via a minor road off the B3283 road at Polgigga and leads to the car park in the village. There is a public convenience, public telephone and small...

, Porth Kidney Sands, Porth Ledden, Porthmeor, Porthmeor Beach, Progo, Porthminster Beach, Priests Cove, Cape Cornwall, Porthmoina Cove, Porth Nanven

Porth Nanven

Porth Nanven is a beach in the far west of Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is located half-a-mile west of the village of St Just....

, Pedn Vounder

Pedn Vounder

Pedn Vounder is a tidal beach on the south coast of the Penwith peninsula, Cornwall, UK. It is immediately to the west of the Logan Rock headland, below Treen Cliff.The name of this location is from the Cornish 'pedn' and 'vounder' ....

, Porthzennor Cove, Porthguarnon, Porthcella, Prye, Polostoc Zawn, Punyans, Pedn-men-an-mere,

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Reawla

Reawla

Reawla is a large hamlet in Penwith district in Cornwall. It is believed the family name "Rule" came from here....

, Rosewarne, Rosemergy

Rosemergy

Rosemergy is a hamlet near Morvah in Cornwall, England, UK....

, Rosewarne, Rosudgeon

Rosudgeon

Rosudgeon is a village in Cornwall, UK mainly situated on the A394 Penzance to Helston Road. For the purposes of local government Rosudgeon falls within the Perranuthnoe civil parish area.-External links:...

, River Cove, Sancreed

Sancreed

Sancreed is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately three miles from Penzance....

, Sennen

Sennen

Sennen is a coastal civil parish and a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Sennen village is situated approximately eight miles west-southwest of Penzance....

, Sennen Cove

Sennen Cove

Sennen Cove is a small coastal settlement in the parish of Sennen, in Cornwall, United Kingdom. According to the Penwith District Council, the population of this settlement was estimated at 180 persons in 2000.-Geography:...

, St Buryan

St Buryan

St Buryan is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, United Kingdom.The village of St Buryan is situated approximately five miles west of Penzance along the B3283 towards Land's End...

, St Erth

St Erth

St Erth is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, United Kingdom.The village is situated four miles southeast of St Ives and six miles northeast of Penzance....

, St Hilary

St Hilary, Cornwall

St Hilary is a civil parish and village in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately five miles east of Penzance and four miles south of Hayle.Chynoweth is an area immediately north of St Hilary....

, St Ives

St Ives, Cornwall

St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial...

, St Just in Penwith

St Just in Penwith

St Just is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish encompasses the town of St Just and the nearby settlements of Trewellard, Pendeen and Kelynack: it is bounded by the parishes of Morvah to the north-east, Sancreed and Madron to the east, St Buryan and Sennen to...

, St Levan

St Levan

St Levan is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately eight miles south west of Penzance....

, Skewjack

Skewjack

Skewjack is the name of a plot of land in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated about 1.5 miles east of Land's End on the B3315 road...

, Sparnon, St Loy's Cove

St Loy's Cove

St Loy's Cove is a small wooded valley and beach in the civil parish of St Buryan in Cornwall, UK. It's located two miles to the south of St Buryan churchtown, and between Penberth and Lamorna. There are just a few buildings in the cove, one of which, Cove Cottage, provides bed and breakfast and a...

, Scathe

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Tregarnoe

Tregarnoe

Tregurnow is a settlement in St Buryan civil parish on the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, United Kingdom.At Tregurnow farm is an interesting celtic cross from the medieval period similar to ones found on the Isle of man....

, Trevescan

Trevescan

Trevescan is a hamlet in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated between the village of Sennen and the settlement at Land's End 8 miles west of Penzance....

, Tredinnick

Tredinnick

Tredinnick may refer to:* David Tredinnick , Australian actor* David Tredinnick , British politician* Miles Tredinnick , English writer* Noel Tredinnick , English organist and composer...

, Tregonnebris, Treloweth, Trendrine, Trenuggo, Treveal, Trewellard

Trewellard

Trewellard is a small village on the north coast road between St Just and St Ives in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated 7 miles from Land's End and 7 miles from Penzance...

, Treen (in St Levan parish), Treen (in Zennor parish)

Treen (Zennor)

Treen is a hamlet in the parish of Zennor, on the north coast of the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. Nearby on the coast is Gurnard's Head, one of the many cliff castles on the Cornish coast and was formerly a Coastguard Lookout. The cliff above is known as Treen Cliff and to...

, Treen Cove

Treen Cove

Treen Cove is a tidal beach on the north coast of the Penwith peninsula, Cornwall, UK. It is about half a mile northwest of the hamlet of Treen, and nestles between Lean Point to the east and Gurnard's Head to the west...

, Tregavarah

Tregavarah

Tregavarah is a small hamlet in the parish of Madron in Cornwall, England, UK. It is situated approximately 2 miles west of Penzance....

, Tregerthen, Tregonnebris, Treloweth, Veor Cove

Veor Cove

Veor Cove is a beach in Cornwall, UK. It is about 1 mile northwest of the village of Zennor, and immediately to the west of Pendour Cove.The name of this cove is from the Cornish 'veor' meaning large or great.-References:...

, Wherrytown

Wherrytown

Wherrytown is a small settlement in west Cornwall, United Kingdom, situated between Newlyn and Penzance on the east side of the Larigan River. The village bore the brunt of the Ash Wednesday storm on 7 March 1962 with most of the buildings destroyed along with nearly one mile of the seafront from...

, Penzance

Penzance

Penzance is a town, civil parish, and port in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. It is the most westerly major town in Cornwall and is approximately 75 miles west of Plymouth and 300 miles west-southwest of London...

, Zennor

Zennor

Zennor is a village and civil parish in Cornwall in England. The parish includes the villages of Zennor, Boswednack and Porthmeor and the hamlet of Treen. It is located on the north coast, about north of Penzance. Alphabetically, the parish is the last in Britain—its name comes from the Cornish...