Penryn
Penryn is a civil parish and town in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is on the Penryn River about 1 mile northwest of Falmouth. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 8,489 and the built up area as defined by the Office for National Statistics had a population of 11,195.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 7,330 residents
- Description: town in Cornwall, England, UK
- Also known as: “Pennrynn” and “Penryn, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Penmere railway station and Teetotal Hall.
Penmere railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Penmere railway station serves the northern part of Falmouth, Cornwall, England. It is on the Maritime Line between Truro and Falmouth Docks. The station is managed by, and the trains operated by, Great Western Railway.
Penryn Campus
University
Penryn Campus is a university campus in Penryn, Cornwall, England, UK. The campus is occupied by two university institutions: Falmouth University and the University of Exeter, with the shared buildings, facilities and services provided by Falmouth Exeter Plus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Falmouth and Mylor Bridge.
Falmouth
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Falmouth is a seaside town in South Cornwall. Famous for its beaches, it is home to the world's third largest natural harbour. The four main beaches in Falmouth are Gyllyngvase, Castle, Swanpool, and Maenporth.
Mylor Bridge
Village
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mylor Bridge is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in Mylor civil parish at the head of Mylor Creek, about five miles north of Falmouth.
Flushing
Village
Flushing is a coastal village in the civil parish of Mylor, west Cornwall, UK. It is 3 miles east of Penryn and 10 miles south of Truro. It faces Falmouth across the Penryn River, an arm of the Carrick Roads.
Penryn
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: South Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.1685° or 50° 10′ 7″ northLongitude
-5.1034° or 5° 6′ 12″ westPopulation
7,330Elevation
95 feet (29 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PRYOpen location code
9C2P5V9W+CJOpenStreetMap ID
node 29285373OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Penryn” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بينرين”
- Asturian: “Penryn”
- Basque: “Pennrynn (Kornualles)”
- Basque: “Penryn”
- Bengali: “পেনরিন”
- Breton: “Pennrynn”
- Catalan: “Penryn”
- Cebuano: “Penryn”
- Chinese: “Penryn”
- Chinese: “彭林”
- Chinese: “潘雷恩”
- Cornish: “Pennrynn”
- Cornish: “Penryn”
- Cornish: “Penrynn”
- Danish: “Penryn (Cornwall)”
- Danish: “Penryn”
- Dutch: “Penryn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بينرين”
- Estonian: “Pennrynn”
- Estonian: “Penryn”
- Finnish: “Pennrynn”
- Finnish: “Penryn”
- French: “Penryn”
- Galician: “Pennrynn”
- Galician: “Penryn, Cornualla”
- Galician: “Penryn”
- German: “Penryn”
- Gujarati: “પેન્રીન”
- Hebrew: “פנרין”
- Inari Sami: “Pennrynn”
- Inari Sami: “Penryn”
- Irish: “Pennrynn, Corn na Breataine”
- Irish: “Penryn”
- Italian: “Penryn”
- Japanese: “ペンリン”
- Kannada: “ಪೆನ್ರಿನ್”
- Korean: “펜린”
- Latin: “Penryn”
- Lithuanian: “Penrinas”
- Lule Sami: “Pennrynn”
- Lule Sami: “Penryn”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Penryn”
- Northern Sami: “Pennrynn”
- Northern Sami: “Penryn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pennrynn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Penryn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Penryn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Penrynn”
- Norwegian: “Penryn”
- Persian: “پنرین، کورنوال”
- Pite Sami: “Pennrynn”
- Pite Sami: “Penryn”
- Polish: “Penryn”
- Portuguese: “Penryn”
- Romanian: “Penryn”
- Russian: “Пенрин”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Penryn, An Chòrn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Penryn”
- Skolt Sami: “Pennrynn”
- Skolt Sami: “Penryn”
- South Azerbaijani: “پنرین، کورنوال”
- Southern Sami: “Pennrynn”
- Southern Sami: “Penryn”
- Spanish: “Pennrynn”
- Spanish: “Penryn”
- Swedish: “Penryn”
- Tamil: “பென்றின்”
- Telugu: “పెన్ రైన్”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Pennrynn”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Penryn”
- Turkish: “Penryn, Cornwall”
- Urdu: “پینرین، کونوال”
- Urdu: “پینرین”
- Welsh: “Pennrynn”
- Welsh: “Penryn, Cernyw”
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