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Penwith

Penwith (Cornish: Pennwydh) 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...
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St Ives

St Ives (Cornish: Porth Ia) 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....

Marazion

Marazion (Cornish: Marghasyow) is a civil parish and town in Cornwall, England, UK. It lies on the shores of Mount's Bay, two miles east of Penzance, one mile east of the village of Long Rock, and is served by the Great Western Railway. A causeway...

St Michael's Mount

St Michael's Mount (Cornish: Karrek Loos y'n Koos) is a tidal island located 366 m (400 yd) off the Mount's Bay coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is united with the town of Marazion by a man-made causeway, passable only at mid to low...

Penzance

Penzance (Cornish: Pensans, also Penzans, pronounced /pɛnˈzæns/) 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....

Sennen

Sennen (Cornish: Sen Senan) 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...

St Erth

St Erth (Cornish: Lannudhno/Praze Pras) is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. The parish shares boundaries with Ludgvan in the west, Hayle in the north, and St Hilary in the south. The village takes its name from...

St Just in Penwith

St Just (Cornish: Lannyust) 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...

Towednack

Towednack is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish is bounded by those of Zennor in the west, Gulval in the south, Ludgvan in the east and St Ives in the north. The village is approximately 2 miles from the town of St....

Paul, Cornwall

Paul is a village and civil parish in Cornwall. The village itself falls within the current boundaries of the civil parish of Penzance, however there is a separate Paul Parish Council which is responsible for the surrounding area. The majority of...

Madron

Madron is a village and civil parish in west Cornwall in the United Kingdom. The parish encompasses the villages of Tredinnick, Lower Ninnes, New Mill, Newbridge and Tregavarah and is bounded by the parishes of Sancreed and St Just to the west, by...

Hayle

Hayle (Cornish: Heyl) is a small town, civil parish and cargo port in Cornwall, England, UK. The parish was created in 1888 from part of the now defunct Phillack parish, with which it was later combined in 1935, and incorporated part of St Erth in...

Drift Reservoir

Drift Reservoir is a reservoir in Cornwall, UK, just north of Drift village, southwest of Penzance. The reservoir is approximately a mile (1.6 km) long. It has a large dam at its southern end, and at the northern end, splits into a northwestern and...

Morvah

Morvah (Cornish: Morvedh) is a hamlet and civil parish in Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. The parish encompasses the settlements of Chypraze and Rosemergy and is bounded by the parishes of St. Just to the west, Zennor to the north-east, Madron to...

Zennor

Zennor is a village and civil parish in Cornwall in the United Kingdom. The parish includes the villages of Zennor, Boswednack and Porthmeor and the hamlet of Treen. It is located on the north coast, about six miles north of Penzance. Alphabetically...

St Levan

St Levan (Cornish: Sen Selevan) is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish encompasses the settlements of St Levan, Trethewey, Treen (the chief village), and Porthcurno and shares boundaries with the parishes of Sennen in...

St Buryan

St Buryan (Cornish: Eglosborrie) 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,...

Sancreed

Sancreed (Cornish: Eglossankres) is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, UK. The parish encompasses the settlements of Bejouans, Bosvennen, Botreah, Drift, Sancreed, Trenuggo, and Tregonnebris and is bounded by the parishes of St. Just to the...

St Hilary

St Hilary is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. St Hilary has many former mines, especially notable was a mine called Wheal Fortune which extended into the parish of Ludgvan. For the purposes of local government St Hilary is a...

Perranuthnoe

Perranuthnoe is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish includes the villages of Perranuthnoe, Goldsithney, Perran Downs and part of Rosudgeon. The first historical mention of Perranuthnoe can be found in the Domesday Book...

Gwinear-Gwithian

Gwinear-Gwithian is a civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It includes the villages of Gwinear, Reawla, Rosewarne, Connor Downs, and Gwithian. Gwinear is situated on a hill with impressive views from the northern end of the village down through...

Ludgvan

Ludgvan (pronounced /ˈlʌdʒən/, LUJ-ən) (Cornish: Ludewan) is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish includes the villages of Ludgvan, Crowlas, Canon's Town and Long Rock. The parish is bounded by those of Towednack and...
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