St Gennys

A wide view across St Gennys parish with Crackington Haven in the foreground
St Gennys parish church (1)
St Gennys parish church (2)
Brockhill United Methodist Church

St Gennys (Standard Written Form: S. Gwynnas)[1] is a coastal civil parish and small settlement in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

The village of St Gennys is about seven miles (11.3 km) southwest of Bude.[2] It is on high ground half-a-mile north of the coastal village of Crackington Haven, the major settlement in the parish. The only other settlements of any size in the parish are Middle Crackington and Higher Crackington both of which are southeast of Crackington Haven, half-a-mile and one mile distant respectively. The population of the parish at the 2011 census was 873.

  1. ^ Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel. Cornish Language Partnership.
  2. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 190 Bude & Clovelly ISBN 978-0-319-23145-6