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Almost all of the links on this page are external to my site and somewhat beyond my control. Sadly it is much depleted since many information sites have vanished. If you discover one that is broken, please let me know and I will fix/remove it as soon as possible.

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Other sites I have found that have an interest in the same area. Sites relating to particular parishes will be found on the relevant parish page.

Genealogical

• Nick Berryman’s Berryman Family History pages have a lot of history, travel, maps and town descriptions for Penwith, especially Towednack and Zennor.
• The Bodmin Moor Site has similar objectives to this one and is growing to cover all parishes on the moor.
• The Cornwall GenWeb has been revived by Sue Seibert and is growing.
• The Familia—Cornwall (family history resources in public libraries) site has more information about the CSL.
• FreeBMD is a project which is (slowly) putting the GRO indexes of Births, Marriages and Deaths online.
• GenealogyLinks.net has some very useful links for Cornish Genealogy.
• The Cornish Association of Victoria Inc., Australia St. Just District Research Group which spreads wide enough to cover all of these parishes.
• Obituaries Help.org, though heavily US based, have a selection of free downloadable Family Tree Templates which can be useful to get your material organised.
• The Cornwall Online Parish Clerks now have their own web site.
• There is a magnificent accumulation of Cornish will abstracts, many in West Penwith, on Kathie Weigel’s Cornish Database page.

General

• BBC Radio Cornwall have a site devoted to Cornwall with an up-to-date what’s-on and a live (and archived) Cornwall Connected program every Sunday afternoon 15:00–18:00 UK time.
• The British Library is very useful for finding books.
• The British Mining Database is accumulating a lot of general and localised information about mining.
• Cornwall and Scilly Urban Survey. This series of studies by the Cornwall Archaelogical Unit, part of Cornwall County Council, is a very detailed study of the towns in Cornwall. It does wonders for my ego to discover that they have cited this web site as one of the sources for the Penzance chapter. There are also chapters on Newlyn and St. Ives.
• The Digital Museum of Cornish Ceramics is documenting the industry in great detail including identification marks and styles. Many of these potteries were in the St. Ives and surround areas.
• Cornish ConneXions [on Facebook], despite being a holiday accomodation web site has some interesting articles on the Culture and History of Cornwall.
• Cornish Mining is the site of the World Heritage Site bid.
• Cornwall CAM is a photograph site run by Charles Winpenny.
• Cornwall Clicks is a photograph site run by Stuart Lindsay.
• Cornwall County Council have a smart and useful web presence which keeps changing(!) You will find information about the Library Service, Record Office, Registration Service (Services of the Council), Family History, Museums (Recreation and Leisure), Facts & Figures (Your Council), History and Archaeology (Environment) and lots more.
• The Cornwall Guide is a new site (2005) that doesn't have much yet but shows promise.
• The Cornwall Heritage Trust own Sancreed Beacon and Tregiffian Barrow and have pages about them.
• The Cornwall Wildlife Trust have a large site with information about conservation etc.
• The Cornwall Online. Despite being a holiday cottage site, this internet magazine has a lot of useful stuff, both locally and via links. Much of it is referenced directly from my pages but more can be accessed via the front page.
• The Countryside Agency now Natural England has a document about West Penwith.
• David Nash Ford’s Early British Kingdoms does a good job of separating the fact from the mythology and covers all the Celtic dynasties including those of St. Just, St. Piran, St. Levan Uther Pendragon, Tristram, King Arthur etc.
• English Heritage have three or four ancient sites in the area (see the Ancient Sites page on this site) but they have also launched the Images of England project which, even in prototype, has 52 photographs around Zennor (the Cornish Grid Stiles) and Ludgvan.
• The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies is a long established organisation devoted to researching and recording the customs and traditions of Cornwall.
• The Geevor Mine is now managed by Pendeen Community Heritage.
• Mark Hattam has an extensive gallery of photographs taken around St. Buryan, St. Just, St. Levan, Madron, Morvah, Sancreed and Sennen including some Monumental Inscriptions by image.
• The St. Ives Trust Archive Study Centre, often overlooked, is another major archive worth remembering.
• St. Just in Penwith Town Council.
• Levant Mine is home to Cornwall’s oldest working beam engine and is owned by the National Trust but (is/was?) run and managed by local volunteers.
• Meyn Mamvro is a magazine about the stones and pre-historic sites of Cornwall published three times a year.
• Penlee House Gallery and Museum is West Cornwall’s centre for art and heritage.
• There is a useful Penwith site which provides links for many local activities, photographs, videos and lots more. A fantastic resource.
• Penwith Local History Group publish some great books.
• The Tate Gallery in St. Ives is a world class art gallery.
• There is a lot about Lighthouses on the Trinity House site.
• The Trevithick Society The Trevithick Trust was responsible for the management of Pendeen Lighthouse, Geevor, the Levant beam engine and Porthcurno Submarine Cable Museum. This society may have taken on that responsibility.
• The Truro Diocese site has links to other parish church pages.
• The Wayside Folk Museum in Zennor was a masterpiece in rural museums but closed in 2015.
• The workhouse project has a page about the Penzance Union Workhouse.
• The Youth Hostel Association have two hostels in the area; Castle Horneck, Alverton, Penzance (map ref. 457302) and Letcha Vean, St. Just (map ref. 364305).

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