Crossword clues for penzance
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
place in Cornwall, Pensans (late 13c.), literally "Holy Headland," from Cornish penn "head" + sans "holy."
Wikipedia
Penzance (; ) is a town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, in England, United Kingdom. It is well known for being the most westerly major town in Cornwall and is approximately west of Plymouth and west-southwest of London. 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 civil parish includes the town of Newlyn and the villages of Mousehole, Paul, Gulval and Heamoor.
Granted various royal charters from 1512 onwards and incorporated in 1614, it has a population of 21,200 (2011 census).
Usage examples of "penzance".
CHAPTER TWO they travelled by the night boat from Harwich, and Harriet, whose longest sea trip had been between Penzance and the Scil lies, was disagreeably surprised to find the North Sea so spiteful.
Miss Hatherton was asking your parents to go and see her studio in Penzance tomorrow, and to stay the night.
Eliza wrote me at Lake Penzance asking me to go to Morris Valley and look after Bettina.
Dawlish, Penzance, and Torquay were resorted to in successive winters, and Mr.
With complete rest at Torquay and Penzance during the winter, he recovered to a considerable degree, and came home to resume many of his usual habits, but Mrs.
They understand this in England, and send a patient with a dry irritating cough to Torquay or Penzance, while they send another with relaxed bronchial membranes to Clifton or Brighton.
Ralfs was also so kind as to send me living plants of the same species from near Penzance in Cornwall.
Lake Penzance, when something jammed on our engine, and we had gone madly round the lake a number of times, with people on various docks trying to lasso us with ropes.
When we read the praises bestowed by Lord Penzance and the other illustrious experts upon the legal condition and legal aptnesses, brilliances, profundities, and felicities so prodigally displayed in the Plays, and try to fit them to the historyless Stratford stage-manager, they sound wild, strange, incredible, ludicrous.
She turned her mind back to Boston, to what the peers of her social circles would be up to this weekend, but her thoughts came continually spiraling back to Penzance.