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Pendeen (from Cornish: Penn Din meaning "headland fort", previously known as Cornish: Boskaswal Wartha, meaning "Caswal's high dwelling") [1] is a village and ecclesiastical parish on the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, England. It is 3 miles (5 kilometres) north-northeast of St Just and 7 mi (11 km) west of Penzance. [2]
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 the south and by the sea in the west. The parish consists of 7,622 acres (3,085 ha) of land, 12 acres (4.9 ha) of water and ...
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] The church of St Just is medieval.
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.
Levant Mine and Beam Engine is a National Trust property at Trewellard, Pendeen, near St Just, Cornwall, England, UK.Its main attraction is that it has the world's only Cornish beam engine still operated by steam on its original site.
St Just's Church, St Just in Roseland, is a Grade I listed [1] parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Truro in St Just in Roseland, Cornwall, England, UK. History [ edit ]
In 1841 he was briefly at St James in Leeds and officiated from 1842 to 1844 as curate of the small parish of Perranuthnoe, near Marazion, in Cornwall, and then became the first incumbent of the new parish of Pendeen in the same county.
St Michael & St Barnabas, Devonport Devonport [17] Michael, Barnabas: 1843 Church of England: St Michael & St Barnabas Services at St Michael's. Rebuilt 1953, 2009. Cons. evang. St Aubyn, Devonport Devonport [18] 1771 Church of England: Stoke Damerel & Devonport Reopened 2011 St Bartholomew, Devonport Devonport [19] Bartholomew: Church of England