We could not match "PENWITH" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, or as a postcode. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 18 possible matches we have found for you:

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• You have just searched a list of the main towns, villages and localities of Britain which we have kept as simple as possible. It is based on a much more detailed list of legally defined administrative units: counties, districts, parishes, wapentakes and so on. This is the real heart of our system, and you may be better off directly searching it. There are no units called "PENWITH" (excluding any that have already been grouped into the places you have already searched), but administrative unit searches can be narrowed by area and type, and broadened using wild cards and "sound-alike" matching:
  
  



• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "PENWITH":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CORNWALL	Cornwall	Penwith, Powder, Pyder, Stratton, and Trigg. The registration county makes some interchange of territory with Devon, receiving more than it gives	Imperial
  EXETER	Cornwall Devon	Penwith. The deanery of East contains the rectories of Botus-Fleming, Calstock, St. Dominic, St. Ive, St. John, Landulph, Lawhitton	Imperial
  JUST (ST.)	Cornwall	Penwith. Real property, £26, 515; of which £14, 394 are in mines, and £92 in iron works	Imperial
  Keigwin	Cornwall	Keigwin , vil., St Just in Penwith par., Cornwall, 5½ miles W. of Penzance.	Bartholomew
  Kenidiack	Cornwall	Penwith par., Cornwall, 4½ miles N. of Lands End; on the coast is Kenidjack Castle , a small headland, crowned	Bartholomew
  KERRIER	Cornwall	Penwith and Powder; containing twenty-eight parishes; and cut into two divisions, E and W. Acres, of the E div., 38, 397; of the W div., 65, 041. Pop. of the E div., in 1851, 25, 990; of the W div., in 1851, 21, 065; of both	Imperial
  LANDS-END	Cornwall	Penwith of the ancient Britons, and the Bolerium of the Romans. It consists almost wholly of granite; has an elevation	Imperial
  LEVAN, or ST. LEVAN	Cornwall	Penwith, or ' ' the holed headland of Penwith, ''is a promontory at the SW extremity of Mount's bay; and takes	Imperial
  MOUNTS-BAY	Cornwall	Penwith on the W. It measures 19¼ miles across the entrance; penetrates 8½ miles north-north-eastward, on the W side	Imperial
  Pendeen	Cornwall	Penwith par., Cornwall - dist., pop. 2311; vil., on the coast, 7 miles NW. of Penzance; P.O.; near the vil. is Pendeen	Bartholomew
  PENDEEN	Cornwall	Penwith parish, Cornwall. The village stands on the coast, at Por therras Cove, 7 miles W N W of Penzance	Imperial
  Penwith	Cornwall	Penwith , hundred, in extreme W. of Cornwall, 99,434 ac., pop. 72,146; contains 27 pars., and consists of 2 divisions	Bartholomew
  PENWITH	Cornwall	Penwith proper is the Lands End; called by the ancient British Penwith, signifying"the left-hand headland; " and was known	Imperial
  PENZANCE	Cornwall	Penwith, containing the parishes of St. Just-in-Penwith, Sancreed, and Mor-vah; and the sub-district of St. Buryan	Imperial
  Pornanyon Cove	Cornwall	Pornanyon Cove , St Just in Penwith par., Cornwall, in S. vicinity of Cape Cornwall.	Bartholomew
  RUNDLESTONE	Cornwall	Penwith Point. It rises from deep sea; is indicated by two beacons on the neighbouring headland; was surmounted in 1855 by an iron	Imperial
  St Just (in Penwith)	Cornwall	Penwith) , small town and par., Cornwall, 7 m. W. of Penzance, 7633 ac., pop. 6409; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks; has extensive	Bartholomew
  Tol-Pedn-Penwith	Cornwall	Tol-Pedn-Penwith , bold headland, Cornwall, 3 miles SE. of Lands End.	Bartholomew

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