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PENZANCE , a municipal See also: - BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough, See also:market See also:town and seaport in the St Ives See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Cornwall, See also:England, the See also:terminus of the See also:Great Western railway, 3252 M. W.S.W. of See also:London. Pop. (See also:root), 13,136. It is finely situated on the western See also:shore of See also:Mount's See also:Bay, opposite St See also:Michael's Mount, being the westernmost See also:port in England. The site of the old town slopes sharply upward from the See also:harbour, to the See also:west of which there extends an esplanade and See also:modern residential See also:quarter; for Penzance, with its mild See also:climate, is in considerable favour as a See also:health resort. The town has no buildings of great antiquity, but the public buildings (1867), in See also:Italian See also:style, are handsome. By the market See also:house is a statue of See also:Sir See also:Humphry See also:Davy, who was See also:born here in 1778. Among institutions there are a specially See also:fine public library, museums of See also:geology and natural See also:history and antiquities, See also:mining and See also:science See also:schools, the West Cornwall Infirmary and a meteorological station. The harbour, enclosed within a See also:breakwater, has an See also:area of 24 acres, with 12 to 16 ft. See also:depth of See also:water, and floating and graving docks.
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