Place:Penwith (district), Cornwall, England

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NamePenwith (district)
TypeDistrict
Located inCornwall, England     (1974 - 2009)
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Penwith (Cornish: Pennwydh) is an area of Cornwall, England, located on the peninsula of the same name. It is also the name of a local government district whose council was based in Penzance. The area is named after one of the ancient administrative hundreds of Cornwall which derives from two Cornish words, penn meaning 'headland' and wydh meaning 'at the end'.

The district was created on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of Penzance and St. Ives boroughs, St. Just-in-Penwith urban district, and West Penwith Rural District, and was abolished and replaced by the Cornwall Unitary Council on 31 March 2009.

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