Penzance
Sign in to savePenzance ( ; ) is a town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England. It lies west-southwest of Plymouth, west-southwest of London, and east of Land's End. Penzance railway station is the terminus of the Cornish Main Line and is both the southernmost and westernmost station in England. Situated in the shelter of Mount's Bay, the town faces south-east onto the English Channel. As well as Penzance itself, the parish also includes the fishing port of Newlyn and the villages of Mousehole, Paul, Gulval, and Heamoor. At the 2021 census the population of the parish was 20,734 and the population of th
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Penzance is a coastal town and port in Cornwall, England, located at the southwestern edge of the country near Land's End, notable for being home to England's southernmost and westernmost railway station. The town and its civil parish, which also includes the fishing port of Newlyn and several villages, serve as an important maritime and transportation hub for the region, with a population of over 20,000 residents.
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Key facts
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- Town
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- Penzance
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- England
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- South West England
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- A panorama of Penzance
- UK place.population
- 20,734
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- (Parish, 2021)
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- PENZANCE
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44 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- History
- Prehistory to Early Medieval period
- High and Late Middle Ages
- Early modern period
- Tudor period
- Penzance as a town since 1614
- 1755 seiche
- 19th century
- 1801–1848
- 1849–1900
- 20th century
- Transport
- Railway
- Buses
- Roads
- Water
- Air
- Governance
- Administrative history
- Economy
- Mining
- Main sights
- Geography
- Climate
- Education
- Culture
- Music and theatre
- Art galleries
- Religion
- Sport
- Cornish wrestling
- Media
- Folklore
- Cornish language
- Notable residents past and present
- Sir Humphry Davy
- Twinning
- Freedom of the Town
- Individuals
- Military units
- See also
- References
- External links
Penzance ( ; ) is a town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England. It lies west-southwest of Plymouth, west-southwest of London, and east of Land's End. Penzance railway station is the terminus of the Cornish Main Line and is both the southernmost and westernmost station in England. Situated in the shelter of Mount's Bay, the town faces south-east onto the English Channel. As well as Penzance itself, the parish also includes the fishing port of Newlyn and the villages of Mousehole, Paul, Gulval, and Heamoor. At the 2021 census the population of the parish was 20,734 and the population of the Penzance built-up area as defined by the Office for National Statistics was 14,960.
Penzance was granted a market charter in 1404 and was formally incorporated as a borough in 1614. Chapel Street has a number of interesting features, including the Egyptian House, The Admiral Benbow public house (home to a 19th-century smuggling gang and allegedly the inspiration for Treasure Islands "Admiral Benbow Inn"), the Union Hotel (including a Georgian theatre which is no longer in use), and Branwell House, where the mother and aunt of the Brontë sisters once lived. Regency and Georgian terraces and houses are common in some parts of the town. The nearby sub-tropical Morrab Gardens has a large collection of tender trees and shrubs, many of which cannot be grown outdoors anywhere else in the UK. Also of interest is the seafront with its promenade and the open-air seawater Jubilee Pool, one of the oldest surviving Art Deco swimming baths in the country.