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Penwith (/ ˌ p ɛ n ˈ w ɪ θ /; Cornish: Pennwydh) is an area of Cornwall, England, located on the peninsula of the same name. It is also the name of a former local government district , whose council was based in Penzance .
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 .
St Just in Penwith Parish Church is a parish church in the Church of England located in St Just in Penwith, Cornwall, UK.
Penwith District Shown within UK and Cornwall This is a full list of all the towns , villages , hamlets and other places of note in the Penwith district of Cornwall , England, United Kingdom
Land's End [1] (Cornish Standard Written Form: Penn an Wlas or Pedn an Wlas) [2] is a headland and tourist and holiday complex in western Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, on the Penwith peninsula about eight miles (13 km) west-south-west of Penzance at the western end of the A30 road.
Gwennap Head (Cornish: Toll Pedn Pennwydh, meaning holed head of Penwith; [1] grid reference) is a headland on the south coast of the Penwith peninsula, Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is within the parish of St Levan and approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Land's End , and less than 1 mile (1.6 km) north-west of Porthgwarra , the nearest ...
Carn Euny (from Cornish: Karn Uni) [1] is an archaeological site near Sancreed, on the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It consists of evidence of both Iron Age and post-Iron Age settlement, [2] with excavation on the site showning activity at Carn Euny as early as the Neolithic period. The first timber huts there were built about ...
Penwith hundred, within Cornwall. Penwith Hundred was one of ten ancient administrative hundreds of the county of Cornwall, England, UK. The ancient hundred of Penwith was larger than the local government district of Penwith (1974–2009) which took its name. Daphne du Maurier in Vanishing Cornwall suggests that the name, Penwith, has three ...