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    In the introduction to his book, Penryn: People Places Postcards Photographs, my cousin Ernie Warmington (who died at the end of 2015) stated:“The Borough of Penryn is situated at the head of the Penryn River where it flows down into the Falmouth Harbour. One of the most ancient boroughs in Cornwall. It is not a large town with a population of approximately 6,000. Penryn stretching over three sides of a wooded valley and is a town of many gardens, practically every home… has a garden of no small proportions, as common with most Cornish towns and especially the older part of the town, were built fronting the narrow streets and roads.”

 

    This website is aimed at helping anyone with family history connections with Penryn, or have links with several town names such as Warmington and Treneer; or have an interest in the Bible Christian movement in Cornwall.

 

    Arthur Mee, in his Cornwall edition of "The King's England" (1937) wrote of Penryn, "It is a town of granite. The pavements and the walls are made of it. Streets of granite houses run steeply up from the creek of Falmouth Harbour, varied only by uncompromising new buildings with roofs of the red shingle which is so sorry a substitute for Cornwall's grey stone".

 

    Please note that most data is held off the website as pdf files, which means that you will probably have to manually return to the site after viewing the information that has been helping you in your research. There is a Contact Page which you can use to seek further information that you feel that I can help with.

 

Graham Warmington [Penryn OPC]

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