Wherrytown

50°06′40″N 5°32′28″W / 50.111°N 5.541°W / 50.111; -5.541

Penzance Promenade seen from Wherrytown in 2005

Wherrytown is a small settlement in west Cornwall, United Kingdom, on the east side of the Laregan River, between Newlyn and Penzance. It was formerly in the civil parish of Madron and was incorporated into the Borough of Penzance in 1934 when local government was reorganised.[1][2]

The area bore the brunt of the Ash Wednesday storm on 7 March 1962, with most of the buildings destroyed along with nearly one mile of the seafront from the Battery Rocks to Tolcarne heavily damaged. The only Wherrytown building to survive was the Mount's Bay Inn.[2] At low spring tides, and after storms partially fossilised trees can be exposed.[3] The South West Coast Path follows the shore.

  1. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7
  2. ^ a b Pool, P A S (1974). The History of the Town and Borough of Penzance. Penzance: Corporation of Penzance. ISBN 0905375009.
  3. ^ "Ancient Cornish forests exposed after storms". Cornwall Wildlife Trust. 20 February 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2014.