Zennor

Zennor is a village and a municipality ( Parish ) in the former Penwith District of Cornwall in England and is situated between St Ives and St Just behind high, rocky cliffs over the Atlantic Ocean between steep granite hills. The landscape around Zennor is inhabited since at least 4000 years, as evidenced by the megaliths of Zennor Quoit Lanyon Quoit or nearby.

Agriculture, fisheries and mining in the tin and copper mines attended in this part of West Cornwall for a certain prosperity. But now the quarries and mines are closed, only a few farmers and fishermen are left, because now most people live here from tourism.

Besides the obligatory pub The Tinners Arms, there are also a Museum: The Wayside Museum was founded in the thirties and shows many aspects of life in West Cornwall in ancient times. It contains a cottage with a traditional Cornish kitchen and an open-air exhibition with house and mine tools from the Stone and Bronze Ages. To visit also an old mill and a blacksmith shop.

The Norman Church of St Senara, which gave the place its name, probably stands on the foundations of a Celtic church of the 6th century and was restored in 1890, after all the original carved oak seats were gone and had to be replaced. On the south side of the church tower is a bronze plaque with the Mermaid of Zennor and one dating from 1737 can be seen.

Zennor was one of the last bastions of the Cornish language, which was supplanted more and more of the English language from the 17th century. Dolly Pentreath of Mousehole was the last person who agreed with Cornish as their mother tongue. She died in 1777. John Davey of Zennor was reportedly the last person to fluently speak the language in its original form. He died in 1891 at the age of 79 years.

The British writer DH Lawrence and his German wife Frieda von Richthofen lived for a short time in Zennor. However, the First World War broke their idyll. Your desire to establish a somewhat eccentric artist colony in Zennor, met with the residents, workers in the tin mines, on suspicion. About Switzerland - - In addition, the correspondence between Frieda and her German relatives made ​​the authorities suspicious. Finally, when two British warships were torpedoed by a German U- boat directly in front of the cliffs of Zennor, came the final out. Within three days, had to leave on suspicion of espionage, the two Cornwall.

Attractions

The Wayside Museum shows household items 1900-1960 The Backpacker House ( German: Hikers house). 's A hostel not only for hikers, but also a resting place for travelers, cyclists and spa guests. In St. Senara can also the Mermaid's chair be visited.

Traffic

3 - to 4 - times a day there is a bus company Greyhound to Penzance and St Ives.

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