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Penzance

Penzance is the most south-westerly town in West Cornwall. Famous for its association with the Gilbert and Sullivan opera The Pirates of Penzance, the town is an ideal base for exploring the Penwith area of Cornwall.
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  • Type: Town with 21,200 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Penzance, Cornwall”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Penzance Railway Station and Newlyn Tidal Observatory.

Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
serves the town of Penzance in west , England. It is the terminus of the Cornish Main Line and the southernmost railway station in , situated at milepost 326.5 miles from .

Observatory
Photo: Herbythyme, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a grade II listed tide gauge hut on the South Pier in in England. Measurements of sea level taken at the observatory between 1915 and 1921 were used to define the reference level, Ordnance Datum Newlyn, for height measurement on the British mainland.

Museum
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is a and art gallery in the town of Penzance, , home to many paintings by members of the Newlyn School, including The Rain It Raineth Every Day by Norman Garstin, School is Out by Elizabeth Forbes, Among the Missing by Walter Langley and On Paul Hill by Stanhope Forbes.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Newlyn and Madron and Sancreed.

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is a fishing village in West Cornwall, a mile or two south of Penzance. The mediaeval quay, beloved of the School painters, still exists and there are many charming cottages and narrow lanes to explore.

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are the two landlocked parishes on the Penwith peninsula in West Cornwall.

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is a charming fishing village in West Cornwall, known for its picturesque harbour. Dylan Thomas described as "the loveliest village in England."…

Penzance

Latitude
50.1195° or 50° 7′ 10″ north
Longitude
-5.5352° or 5° 32′ 7″ west
Population
21,200
Elevation
105 feet (32 metres)
IATA airport code
PZE
United Nations Location Code
GB PEN
Open location code
9C2P4F97+QW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 685852848
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2640377
Wiki­data ID
Q208209
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Penzance” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بينزانس”
  • Armenian: “Պենզանս”
  • Armenian: “Փենզանս”
  • Asturian: “Penzance”
  • Basque: “Penzance”
  • Belarusian: “Пензанс”
  • Bengali: “পেঞ্জান্সে”
  • Breton: “Pennsans”
  • Breton: “Penzance”
  • Breton: “Penzañs”
  • Bulgarian: “Пензанс”
  • Burmese: “ပင်န်ဇန့်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Penzance”
  • Catalan: “Penzans”
  • Cebuano: “Penzance (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Penzance”
  • Chinese: “彭贊斯”
  • Chinese: “彭赞斯”
  • Cornish: “Pennsans”
  • Cornish: “Pensans”
  • Czech: “Penzance”
  • Danish: “Penzance”
  • Dutch: “Penzance”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بينزانس”
  • Esperanto: “Penzance”
  • Estonian: “Penzance”
  • French: “Penzance”
  • Galician: “Penzance”
  • Georgian: “პენზანსი”
  • German: “Pennsans”
  • German: “Pensans”
  • German: “Penzance”
  • Greek: “Πενζάνς”
  • Gujarati: “પેનઝાન્સ”
  • Hebrew: “פנזנס”
  • Icelandic: “Penzance”
  • Interlingue: “Penzance”
  • Irish: “Pen Sans”
  • Irish: “Pennsans”
  • Irish: “Penzance”
  • Italian: “Penzance”
  • Japanese: “ペンザンス”
  • Kannada: “ಪೆನ್ಜಾನ್ಸ್”
  • Korean: “펜잰스”
  • Ladin: “Penzance”
  • Latin: “Penzance”
  • Latin: “Penzans”
  • Lithuanian: “Penzansas”
  • Macedonian: “Пензанс”
  • Manx: “Pen Sans”
  • Northern Sami: “Pennsans”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Penzance”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pensans”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Penzance”
  • Norwegian: “Penzance”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pennsans”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Penzance”
  • Ossetian: “Пензанс”
  • Persian: “پنزانس”
  • Polish: “Penzance”
  • Portuguese: “Penzance”
  • Quechua: “Penzance”
  • Romanian: “Penzance”
  • Russian: “Пензанс”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Pennsans”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Penzance”
  • Slovenian: “Penzance”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پنزانس”
  • Spanish: “Penzance”
  • Swedish: “Penzance”
  • Tagalog: “Penzance”
  • Tamil: “பென்சான்ஸ்”
  • Telugu: “పెన్స్యాన్స్”
  • Turkish: “Penzance”
  • Ukrainian: “Пензанс”
  • Urdu: “پینزانس”
  • Urdu: “پینزانکی”
  • Volapük: “Pensans”
  • Volapük: “Penzance”
  • Welsh: “Pennsans”
  • Welsh: “Pensans”
  • Western Frisian: “Penzance”
  • Western Panjabi: “پینزانس”

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