St Levan (
Cornish: Sen Selevan) is a village and
civil parishIn England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and in some places the lowest tier of local government, below districts and counties. A civil parish can alternatively be known as a town, village, neighbourhood or community by resolution of its parish council; and in a limited number of...
in
CornwallCornwall is a county of England in the United Kingdom, forming the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain. It is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Taken with the...
,
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. The parish encompasses the settlements of St Levan, Trethewey,
TreenTreen is a small village in the far west of Cornwall, United Kingdom situated approximately 3 miles inland from Land's End on a short unclassified spur road from the B3315...
(the chief village), and
PorthcurnoPorthcurno is a small village in the parish of St. Levan located in a valley on the south coast of Cornwall, England, UK. It is approximately 9 miles to the west of the market town of Penzance and about 3 miles from Land's End, the most westerly point of the English mainland...
and shares boundaries with the parishes of
SennenSennen is a village and civil parish, in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish encompasses the settlements of Trevescan, Carn Towan, Sennen and Sennen Cove as well as Land's End and is bounded by the parishes of St. Just to the north, St. Buryan to the east, St...
in the north-west,
St BuryanSt Buryan is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish encompasses the villages of St. Buryan, Lamorna, and Crows-an-wra and shares boundaries with the parishes of Sancreed and St Just to the north, Sennen and St Levan to the west, with Paul to the east and by the sea in...
in the north-east (with which it has close ties) and is bounded by the sea in the south and was at one point part of
St BuryanSt Buryan is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish encompasses the villages of St. Buryan, Lamorna, and Crows-an-wra and shares boundaries with the parishes of Sancreed and St Just to the north, Sennen and St Levan to the west, with Paul to the east and by the sea in...
parish. The village of St. Levan is situated approximately eight miles (12.7 km) south west of
PenzancePenzance is a town, civil parish, and port in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom.Granted various Royal Charters from 1512 onwards and incorporated in 1614, it has a population of 20,255....
along a minor road that forks from the
B3315The Great Britain road numbering scheme is a numbering system used to classify and identify all roads in Great Britain. Each road is given a single letter, which represents the road's category, and a subsequent number, with a length of between 1 and 4 digits. Originally introduced to arrange...
towards
Land's EndLand's End is a headland on the Penwith peninsula, located near Penzance in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is the most westerly point of the English mainland; the westernmost point of the island of Great Britain as a whole is Corrachadh Mòr, Ardnamurchan, Scotland which is farther west...
. The parish comprises of land, of water and of foreshore.
Local Government
For the purposes of local government St Levan is a civil parish and elects every 4 years a parish council consisting of 10 councillors. The principal local authority in the area is Cornwall Council.
St. Levan Church
- St. Levan's Church, St. Levan
St. Levan's Church, St. Levan is a parish church in the Church of England located in St Levan, Cornwall. Until 1864 the church was a chapelry of the Royal Peculiar of the Deanery of St. Buryan. It is now part of the united benefice of St. Buryan and St. Sennen.-History:The church of St. Levan is...
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