Chyandour

50°07′34″N 5°31′37″W / 50.126°N 5.527°W / 50.126; -5.527

Chyandour (Cornish: Chi an Dowr,^[1] meaning "house of the water") is a small settlement within the town of Penzance in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is on the north-east edge of the town straddling the A30 trunk road. The Chyandour Brook rises near Carfury and flows into Mount's Bay at Chyandour.^[2] Before 1934 Chyandour was in the parish of Madron and was the site of a large tin smelting works.

^ Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) Archived 2013-05-15 at the Wayback Machine : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel Archived May 15, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Cornish Language Partnership.
^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7

[1] Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) Archived 2013-05-15 at the Wayback Machine : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel Archived May 15, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Cornish Language Partnership.

[2] Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7

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