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St Just (Cornish: Lan(n)ust), [3] also known as St Just in Penwith, is a town and civil parish in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies along the B3306 road which connects St Ives to the A30 road .
The church is dedicated to St Just; in 1478 William of Worcester reported that the church enshrined the relics of Saint Justus the Martyr. Just, Justin or Yestin was a son of St Geraint . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
However, following the introduction of unitary authorities in 2009, Penwith District Council was abolished and, by 2010, the St Just in Penwith Town Council had relocated to new offices at No.1 Chapel Street, also known as "Bank House". [10] [11] Since then, the old town hall has been managed by St Just Community ABC as a community venue. [12]
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The district was created on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of Penzance and St. Ives boroughs, St Just urban district, and West Penwith Rural District, and was abolished and replaced by the Cornwall Unitary Council on 31 March 2009.
A 'plain-an-gwarry' ("playing place") in St Just in Penwith. An audio clip of the Cornish Language pronunciation of 'Plen' A plen-an-gwarry or plain-an-gwary (Cornish: Plen an Gwari), is a "playing-place" or round, a medieval amphitheatre found in Cornwall.
It is in the civil parish of St Just in Penwith. It lies along the B3306 road which connects St Ives to the A30 road near Land's End. Carnyorth lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and the electoral division of St Just in Penwith. [3]
A letter to the Cornishman in 1879 entitled "Midsummer at St Just" recalls memories of the Midsummer fair at St Just in the 1820s. [11] Most of the town's inhabitants would visit Cape Cornwall for a fair where there were stalls selling fruit, biscuits, and beer. The account recalls the "grassy slopes along the Cape animated by the movements and ...