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Location:
Europe,
United Kingdom, Penzance
Category:
Coastal view
Description:
View of the sea at Mount's Bay,
looking towards St Michaels Mount
Location Information:
Penzance 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.
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 and to the east by the civil
parish of Ludgvan. The town's
location gives it a temperate
climate, warmer than most of the
rest of Britain. Penzance's former
main street Chapel Street has a
number of interesting features
including the Egyptian House, The
Union Hotel (including a Georgian
theatre which is no longer in use)
and The Branwell House, where the
mother and aunt of the famous Bronte
sisters once lived.
Jubilee Pool, PenzanceAlso of
interest is the seafront with its
promenade and the open-air seawater
Jubilee Bathing Pool (one of the
oldest surviving Art Deco swimming
baths in the country), built at the
beginning of the 20th century during
Penzance's heyday as a fashionable
seaside resort. The pool was
designed by Captain F. Latham, the
Penzance Borough Engineer and opened
in 1935, the year of King George V's
Silver Jubilee. Penzance promenade
itself has been destroyed in parts
several times by storms. The most
recent example was on 7 March 1962
(Ash Wednesday), when large parts of
the western end of the promenade,
the nearby Beford Bolitho Gardens
(now a play park) and the village of
Wherrytown suffered severe damage
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