Pentewan, Cornwall

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Pentewan is a village in Cornwall

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Pentewan within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Pentewan in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Pontewan, vil. with small harbour, on coast of Cornwall, 4 miles E. of St Austell; shares in the working of large quarries in the vicinity. The once productive tin mines of Pontewan are now practically useless, being for the most part submerged.

Pentewan in the Domesday Book

A village in Tybesta hundred, in the county of Cornwall.

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