Penzance : Ask Biography

UK Place

Local name

Pensans

Demography

Population

21168 ((2001))

Administration

Parish

Penzance

Unitary authority

Cornwall

Ceremonial county

Cornwall

Region

South West England

Country

England

Other Information

Post town

PENZANCE

Postcode district

TR18 TR

Dialling code

01736

UK Parliament

St Ives

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Penzance (c-eniconpɛnˈzæns; ; also Penzans) is a town, civil parish, and port in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. It is the most westerly major town in Cornwall and is approximately 75 miles (120 km) west of Plymouth and 300 miles (500 km) west-southwest of London.

Granted various Royal Charters from 1512 onwards and incorporated in 1614, it has a population of 21,168.

Situated in the shelter of Mount's Bay, the town faces south-east onto the English Channel, is bordered to the west by the fishing port of Newlyn, to the north by the civil parish of Madron and to the east by the civil parish of Ludgvan. The town's location gives it a temperate climate, milder than most of the rest of Britain.