Join us for a walk around Penzance, Cornwall, England. We explore Penzance Town Centre and Penzance Harbour.
Our walk starts at the top of Causewayhead, we walk down to The Greenmarket. Then explore Chapel Street where we see the beautiful Egyptian House and take a look at the Admiral Benbow pub. We then retrace our steps back to The Market House and walk down Market Jew Street, Albert Street and Wharf Road. Our walk finishes by Penzance Harbour with views across to the Scillonian III passenger ferry.
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Penzance is a town, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is the most westerly major town in Cornwall and is about 64 miles west-southwest of Plymouth and 255 miles 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.
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 Branwell House, where the mother and aunt of the famous Brontë sisters once lived. Regency, and Georgian terraces and houses are common in some parts of the town. The nearby sub-tropical Morrab Gardens has a large collection of tender trees and shrubs, many of which cannot be grown outdoors anywhere else in the UK. Also 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 during Penzance's heyday as a fashionable seaside resort. It opened in 1935, the year of King George V's Silver Jubilee.
Penzance is the base of the pirates in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera, The Pirates of Penzance. At the time the libretto was written, 1879, Penzance had become popular as a peaceful resort town, so the idea of it being overrun by pirates was amusing to contemporaries.
The Scillonian III Passenger Ferry sails from Penzance harbour to St Mary's, the largest island in the Isles of Scilly.
The Egyptian House is a grade I listed building in the Cornish town of Penzance. It is built in the style of Egyptian Revival architecture and has been in the ownership of the Landmark Trust since the 1970s. The current building dates from 1835-36. The building is at 6-7 Chapel Street, Penzance.
Penzance was the birthplace of the chemist Sir Humphry Davy. He is best known as the inventor of the Miner's Safety Lamp, or Davy lamp. There is a statue of Davy at the top of Market Jew Street, near the house in which he was born.
The Market House and Old Town Hall (1836-38) in Market Jew Street was designed by William Harris, District Surveyor for Bristol, in the Greek Revival style. It has a grand Ionic portico and is surmounted by a dome. Alterations for Lloyds Bank were carried out in 1922-25.
28 авг 2024
