Penwith (/ˌpɛnˈwɪθ/; 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...
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Penwith Hundred was one of ten ancient administrative hundreds of the county of Cornwall, England, UK. The ancient hundred of Penwith was larger than...
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Truro and Penwith College is a further education college in Cornwall, England. Truro College was founded in 1993 in Gloweth near Threemilestone, Truro...
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pen-ZANSS; Cornish: Pennsans) is a town, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is the westernmost major...
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from Cornish folklore. Spriggans are particularly associated with West Penwith in Cornwall. Spriggan is a dialect word, pronounced with the grapheme <gg>...
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Just (Cornish: Lan(n)ust), also known as St Just in Penwith, is a town and civil parish in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It...
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Mousehole (category Penwith)
in the village. The local community radio station is Coast FM (formerly Penwith Radio), which broadcasts on 96.5 and 97.2 FM. Mousehole was part of the...
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Penwith was a non-metropolitan district in Cornwall, England. It was abolished on 1 April 2009 and replaced by Cornwall Council. The first election to...
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Leonard Henry Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith PC (6 July 1832 – 11 May 1918) was a radical British politician, and an academic, who became famous...
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Cornish mythology (section Penwith)
Cornish mythology is the folk tradition and mythology of the Cornish people. It consists partly of folk traditions developed in Cornwall and partly of...
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Hundreds of Cornwall (section Penwith)
boundary between the hundreds of Penwith and Kerrier), and Assa Govranckowe 1580, Kyver Ankou c. 1720, also on the Penwith – Kerrier border near Scorrier...
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Coast FM (West Cornwall) (redirect from Penwith Radio)
launched from its studios in Penzance on 5 November 2016 as a re-brand of Penwith Radio. Under the 'Character of service' section of the station's key commitments...
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St Just in Penwith Parish Church is a parish church in the Church of England located in St Just in Penwith, Cornwall, UK. The church is dedicated to St...
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The Penwith Society of Arts is an art group formed in St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK, in early 1949 by abstract artists who broke away from the more conservative...
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October (1980). Lash's paintings were featured in several exhibitions in The Penwith Galleries in St Ives, The Halesworth Gallery and Westleton Chapel Gallery...
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The Penwith Housing Association was a social housing provider based in Cornwall, UK. It was formed in 1994 following the sale of Penwith District Council's...
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the Giant Killer". The stories usually associate him with the area of Penwith. Cornish folklore remembers Blunderbore as living in Ludgvan Lese (a manor...
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list of all the towns, villages, hamlets and other places of note in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom Contents: Top 0–9 A B C...
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Cornwall, United Kingdom: Penwith Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-9997775-0-0. English Heritage. "Listed Buildings in Penwith" (PDF). Penwith District Council. p...
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Baron St Just, of St Just in Penwith, County of Cornwall, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1935 for the banker Edward...
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represents the 'Nampara Valley', and the Botallack Mine near St Just in Penwith, which is featured as 'Wheal Leisure', the mine that Ross Poldark attempts...
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Lamorna (category Penwith)
a village, valley and cove in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on the Penwith peninsula approximately 4 miles (6 km) south of Penzance. Lamorna became...
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St Just in Penwith (Cornish: Lannust) was an electoral division of Cornwall in the United Kingdom which returned one member to sit on Cornwall Council...
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functions for St Ives were undertaken by Penwith District Council and the Cornwall County Council. From 1 April 2009 Penwith and the other five Cornish district...
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Hensbarrow north of St Austell, Carnmenellis to the south of Camborne, and the Penwith or Land's End peninsula. These intrusions are the central part of the granite...
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July 2021, a study published by the University of Exeter and Truro and Penwith College found Red Dead Redemption 2 players had an increased understanding...
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were four Cornish stannaries (from west to east): Penwith and Kerrier: Most of the hundreds of Penwith and Kerrier (including the granite outcrops of Land's...
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uprising. By the middle of the 17th century, the language had retreated to Penwith and Kerrier, and transmission of the language to new generations had almost...
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constituency) Penryn, Cornwall Penwith Penwith (hundred) 2004 Penwith Council election 2007 Penwith Council election Penwith Peninsula Penwith local elections Penzance...
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Special Scientific Interest in Cornwall Lands End Lizard Point Beaches of Penwith Carbis Bay Crackington Haven Downderry Fistral Beach Gwithian Harlyn Maenporth...
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