What do native Cornish residents call Penwith?
Penwith 1974 and until abolition the district of Penwith was twinned with Penwith Penwith (; ) is an area of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, located on the peninsula of the same name. It is also the name of a former local government district, whose council was based in Penzance. The area is named after one of the ancient administrative hundreds of Cornwall which derives from two Cornish words, "penn" meaning 'headland' and "wydh" meaning 'at the end'. Natural England have designated the peninsula as national character area 156 and named it West Penwith. It is also known as the Land's End
Penwith a John Nancarrow from Marazion who was a native speaker and survived into the 1790s. Chesten Marchant, d. 1676, a woman from Gwithian, is believed to have been the last "monoglot" Cornish speaker. Canon Doble's "Cornish Saints Series" included saints from this area: nine of these were reissued in 1960. Penwith had a population of 65,000 in the mid-2007 estimates. 96.4% of Penwith residents were born in the UK. 72% of people in the district gave Christianity as their religion, whilst nearly 18% of people stated that they are non-religious, compared to 15 percent nationally. Penwith has the 6th highest