Penzance Sentence Examples

In 1327 thirty burgesses in Penzance and thirteen boats paying 13s.

The rise and progress of the neighbouring borough of Penzance in the 17th century was the undoing of Marazion.

In a hot car under heavy traffic we sauntered along the route, eventually arriving in Penzance, quite frazzled.

The company also operates the heliports at Penzance and Cardiff.

Causeway Head is a pleasant pedestrian precinct located close to the center of Penzance.

Seabirds were surprisingly scarce, a few Manx Shearwater near Penzance being the highlight.

All retailers in Penzance are urged to help make this event really spectacular.

But when in 1794 his father, Robert Davy, died, leaving a widow and five children in embarrassed circumstances, he awoke to his responsibilities as the eldest son, and becoming apprentice to a surgeonapothecary at Penzance set to work on a systematic and remarkably wide course of self-instruction which he mapped out for himself in preparation for a career in medicine.

The band and cast stayed in a small village hall in the remote village of Paul, just a few miles from Penzance.

Rosehill House - Situated in a secluded select area near Penzance.

The chief centre, however, of the fishery in the west of England is at Newlyn, near Penzance, where the small local sailing boats are outnumbered by hundreds of large boats, both sail and steam, which come chiefly from Lowestoft for the season.

Penzance (Pensans) was not recognized as a port until the days of the Tudors, but its importance as a fishing village dates from the 14th century.

Apart from fishing and shipping, Penzance has never been an industrial centre.

He then settled for some years as a medical practitioner at Penzance; there geology engaged his particular attention, and he became secretary of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall.

Courtney, a banker, was born at Penzance on the 6th of July 1832.

Ridsdale, 1876 (1 P. & D., 316), a metal crucifix on the centre of the chancel screen was declared illegal as being in danger of being used superstitiously, and in the same case pictures or rather coloured reliefs representing the "Stations of the Cross" were ordered to be removed on the ground that they had been erected without a faculty, and were also considered unlawful by Lord Penzance as connected with certain superstitious devotion authorized by the Roman church.

During his school days at the grammar schools of Penzance and Truro he showed few signs of a taste for scientific pursuits or indeed of any special zeal for knowledge or of ability beyond a certain skill in making verse translations from the classics and in story-telling.

In this way the late Lord Penzance became dean on the retirement of Sir Robert Phillimore in 1875.

Lord Penzance received in 1878 a supplemental patent as dean from Archbishop Tait, but did not otherwise fulfil the conditions observed on the appointment of his predecessors.

On Lord Penzance's retirement in 1899, his successor, Sir Arthur Charles, received a patent from the archbishop of Canterbury as official principal of the Arches court, and he took the oaths of office according to the practice before the Public Worship Regulation Act.

Located on the western edge of Penzance, Newlyn is home to the largest fleet of fishing boats in the South of England.

There are even helicopter flights from Penzance to see the lights from the sky.

Brunel adopted for the Great Western railway disappeared on the 20th-23rd of May 1892, when the main line from London to Penzance was converted to standard gauge throughout its length.

The site of the old town slopes sharply upward from the harbour, to the west of which there extends an esplanade and modern residential quarter; for Penzance, with its mild climate, is in considerable favour as a health resort.