Sennen (GB)

Sennen Square Circle of 1904

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Sennen (Cornish: Sen Senan or Sen Senana) is a coastal civil parish and a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Sennen village is situated approximately eight miles west-southwest of Penzance.Sennen was the County Sub-Office name. The main Post Office is in the Mayon part of the settlement.

Sennen parish is bounded by the sea to the west and bordered by the parishes of St Just to the north, St Buryan to the east, St Levan to the south. The Longships, a group of rocky islets situated off Lands End, are also within the parish. The main settlements are Churchtown, Trevescan, Carn Towan, Sennen Cove and Land's End. Also the settlement of Mayon just to the north of Sennen where the current Sennen Post Office resides in a 'local' store.

Sennen parish is situated at the western tip of the Penwith peninsula and is exposed to prevailing westerly winds from the Atlantic. Geologically, it is located on the Land's End Granite, one of the five major granite batholiths that make up the spine of Cornwall (see Geology of Cornwall). Consequently, the parish has a bare moorland-like character with very few trees and no woodland.

The church town, Sennen, is the most westerly village in mainland England and is 315 miles west-southwest of London. Below the village is the harbour settlement of Sennen Cove.

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Sennen was its own County Sub Office (Cornwall) in the early history of the Post Office

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