Praa Sands ( pray-sandz; Cornish: Poll an Wragh, meaning pool of the wrasse), (formerly Prah 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.
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Pengersick Castle is a fortified manor house located between the villages of Germoe and Praa Sands, in the civil parish of Breage, in Cornwall, England. The tower house, which is in the parish of Breage, is a Grade I listed building. Parts of the building date from the early 16th century.
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Germoe is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Germoe village, the parish's main settlement and church town, is about five miles west of Helston and seven miles east of Penzance. The A394 Penzance to Helston road runs along the southern border of the parish. Other settlements in the parish include Balwest, Boscreege and Tresowes Green.
The parish is named after Saint Germocus, one of the companions of Saint Breage. According to legend Germoc was a king in Ireland whose feast day is 6 May.
Historically, the largest landowners in the parish were the Godolphin family.
Germoe parish is bounded to the north, east and south by Breage parish and to the west by St Hilary parish. The population was 508 in the 2001 census. This had increased to 549 at the 2011 census. The parish is now rural in character but was once associated with the Cornish mining industry; to the north it borders the geological formation known as the Tregonning-Godolphin Granite and the area was formerly an important source of tin and copper ore. Tregonning Hill is the site of the Germoe first and second war memorial.
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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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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 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. 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.
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.