Kenneggy Downs is a hamlet on the A394, in the civil parish of Breage, between the towns of Helston and Penzance in Cornwall, UK. It is 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Penzance. Kenegy is Cornish for bogs. The Grade II listed, 18th-century public house the Coach and Horses was extended in the 19th century and was originally an inn on the turnpike between Penryn and Penzance.
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Kenneggy comprises two separate hamlets, Higher Kenneggy to the west and Lower Kennegy to the east, in the west of the civil parish of Breage, Cornwall, England, UK. They are situated 5 miles east of the town of Penzance.
To the south is the beach of Kenneggy Sands, and to the north is the hamlet of Kenneggy Downs.
The name Kenneggy is an anglicisation of the Cornish language keunegi, which means 'reed beds'.
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Rosudgeon is a hamlet in the civil parish of Perranuthnoe in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, situated on the A394 Penzance to Helston road.
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Praa Sands, is a white-sand beach and coastal village in civil parish of Breage, in Cornwall, England. It lies off the A394 road between Helston and Penzance. Formerly serving the local mining industry, it is now mostly a tourist-orientated area. The beach is popular with surfers and walkers. Towards the south eastern end of the beach is a Second World War Type 24 pillbox. Originally this was constructed on top of the cliffs but it has been subjected to coastal erosion and has settled down onto the beach.
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Prussia Cove, formerly called King's Cove, is a small private estate on the coast of Mount's Bay and to the east of Cudden Point, west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Part of the area is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest, a Geological Conservation Review site and is in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It consists of four small coves and several cottages and houses. The names of the coves from west to east are Piskies, Bessy's, King's and Coule's. The area is accessible by foot from the South West Coast Path
Built into the fireplace is a circa, early 19th-century granite milestone with the inscription ″From Helston 1". On 3 September 1879 a tenement was sold by auction at Kanneggie Downs. Kenneggy Downs is north of the twin hamlets of Kenneggy. There is also a Kenegie at Gulval, near Penzance.
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