Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SENNEN

SENNEN, a village and a parish in Penzance district, Cornwall. The village stands 387 feet above sea-level, 1 mile E of Lands-End, and 9 S W of Penzance r. station; and has an inn, called the First and Last inn in England. The parish includes Lands-End and the light-house off it; and comprises 2, 230 acres of land, and 70 of water. Post-town, Penzance. Real property, £2, 887. Pop., 613. Houses, 123. The property is divided among a few. Salt-works were here at Domesday, but have been discontinued. Small harbours are at S. cove and Whitsand bay; and fishing is largely carried on. Roman coins were found in 1807. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £230. Patron, the Prince of.wales. The church is ancient but good. There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Bible Christians, and a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Sennen CP/Ch       Penzance RegD/PLU       Cornwall AncC
Place: Sennen

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