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.Photo: Marktee1, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Penzance Railway Station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Penzance railway station serves the town of Penzance in west Cornwall, England.
Penlee House
Penlee House is a museum and art gallery located in the town of Penzance in Cornwall, and is home…Newlyn Tidal Observatory
Photo: Herbythyme, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Newlyn Tidal Observatory is a grade II listed tide gauge hut on the South Pier in Newlyn, Cornwall in England.
Localities in the Area
Newlyn
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Newlyn is a fishing village in West Cornwall, a mile or two south of Penzance.
Madron and Sancreed
Madron and Sancreed are the two landlocked parishes on the Penwith peninsula in West Cornwall.Mousehole
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mousehole is a charming fishing village in West Cornwall, known for its picturesque harbour.
Penzance
- Type: Town with 21,200 residents
- Description: town in Cornwall, England, UK
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: West Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.1195° or 50° 7' 10" northLongitude
-5.5352° or 5° 32' 7" westPopulation
21,200Elevation
32 metres (105 feet)IATA airport code
PZEUnited Nations Location Code
GB PENOpen Location Code
9C2P4F97+QWOpenStreetMap ID
node 685852848OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2640377Wikidata ID
Q208209Penzance Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- 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
- English: Penzance, Cornwall
- Esperanto: Penzance
- Estonian: Penzance
- French: Penzance
- Galician: Penzance
- Georgian: პენზანსი
- German: Pennsans
- German: Pensans
- German: Penzance
- Greek: Πενζάνς
- Gujarati: પેનઝાન્સ
- Hebrew: פנזאנס
- 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: Penzans
- Lithuanian: Penzansas
- Macedonian: Пензанс
- Manx: Pen Sans
- Northern Sami: Pennsans
- Norwegian: Penzance
- Norwegian Bokmål: Penzance
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Pensans
- Norwegian Nynorsk: 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
Other Places Named Penzance
Localities in the Area
- TreneereSuburb
- WherrytownSuburb
- HeamoorVillage
- GulvalVillage
- BoneHamlet
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