Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MAEN, or MAYEN

MAEN, or MAYEN, a village in Sennen parish, Cornwall; 1¾ mile E of Lands-End, and 9 WSW of Penzance. A block of granite, called Table-Maen, preserved here, is said to have been used at a picnic dinner by three Saxon kings, when visiting Lands-End.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Sennen CP/Ch       Cornwall AncC
Place names: MAEN     |     MAEN OR MAYEN     |     MAYEN
Place: Maen

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