Long Rock
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Long Rock
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 A view of Long Rock, from a helicopter | |
  Long Rock Location within Cornwall | |
| OS grid reference | SW497315 |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | PENZANCE |
| Postcode district | TR20 |
| Dialling code | 01736 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Cornwall |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| UK Parliament | |
Long Rock (Cornish: Carrek Hyr) is a village in west Cornwall, England. It lies approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Penzance and 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Marazion, in the civil parish of Ludgvan.
Geography
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The village is named after the offshore tidal Long Rock.[a] Long Rock is on the shore of Mount's Bay, at the centre of the 3 miles (4.8 km) beach, which stretches from Penzance to Marazion. The beach is backed by a sea wall, along which the Cornish Main Line and the South West Coast Path run.
Amenities
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The nearest primary schools are located in Gulval and Ludgvan, with the nearest secondary school, Humphry Davy School, in Penzance.
There is a shop, post office, two pubs (one offering B&B), a care home, an equestrian and agricultural supplier, a hall which can be hired, two motorbike training places, a car rental business and several car sales businesses. The industrial estate contains a glass merchant, a computer repairer, a vet and a solar energy firm.
Long Rock Playing Field Association recently received a grant to install new play equipment. Penwith District Council built a new 'amenity area' in a field close to the A30.
Marazion Marsh, an RSPB nature reserve leased from Lord St Levan, is situated half-a-mile east of the village.[2]
A Wesleyan chapel, on the old A30 between Long Rock and Newtown, opened on 21 June 1889. It was a replacement for an old, decaying ″clob″ building at Newtown.[3]
Transport
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The nearest railway station is at Penzance; Great Western Railway operates local and inter-city services to the rest of South West England, South Wales, the Wessex region and London.[4]
Long Rock is the site of a railway motive power depot. Formerly catering to steam locomotives, it is operated by Great Western Railway and is the most south-westerly depot on the National Rail network. Now known as Penzance TMD, it is a refuelling and servicing depot for diesel locomotives and multiple units.[5]
Long Rock has regular bus services to Penzance, Camborne, St Ives and Truro, operated by Go Cornwall Bus.[6]
A dual carriageway bypass carries the A30 road north of the village; the land beside the road has been extensively developed with light industry and a retail park.
Penzance Heliport is situated between Long Rock and Penzance. The original heliport was demolished in 2014 and a Sainsburys supermarket, car park and trading estate was built on the site. In 2019, a new heliport was built on a site opposite trading estate, 10 yards (9.1 m) away from the original. In spring 2020, a scheduled service to the Isles of Scilly commenced.
The villages lies on The Cornish Way network of cycle paths.
Media
[edit]The local community radio station is Coast FM (formerly Penwith Radio).[7]
Cornish wrestling
[edit]William Couch Jeffery (1826–1899),[8] was from Long Rock and was champion middleweight[9] of Cornwall for a quarter of a century including the 1840s and 1850s.[10][11][12] He won many prizes in Cornwall as well as London.[12] He was initially a miner and then a market gardener and fisherman.[8] He spent some time in Australia and it was said that he had beaten the Australian champion wrestler, who was an Irishman after walking 160 miles to the match.[13][12]
Notes
[edit]- ^ The Long Rock itself lies at grid reference SW498308.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ OS Explorer Land's End (Map). Southampton: Ordnance Survey. 2015. ISBN 978 0 319 24304 6.
- ^ "Marazion Marsh". RSPB. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- ^ "The Opening of a New Wesleyan Chapel at Longrock, Ludgvan". The Cornishman. No. 573. 27 June 1889. p. 6.
- ^ "Train Times". Great Western Railway. 14 December 2025. Retrieved 8 April 2026.
- ^ Bennett, Alan (1988). The Great Western Railway in West Cornwall. Runpast Publications. ISBN 1-870754-12-3.
- ^ "Long Rock bus services". Bustimes.org. Retrieved 8 April 2026.
- ^ "Volunteer run Penwith Radio to change its name to Coast FM". Falmouthpacket.co.uk. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
- ^ a b Death of a Cornish wrestler, Cornubian and Redruth Times, 3 November 1899, p5.
- ^ Wrestlers of the past, Cornishman - Thursday 28 January 1904, p5.
- ^ Wrestling at Redruth, The Cornish Telegraph, 15 May 1884, p8.
- ^ Wrestling at Redruth, Cornishman - Thursday 15 May 1884, p5.
- ^ a b c Death of a manly wrestler, Cornishman, 9 November 1899, p2.
- ^ Death of a Cornish wrestler and respected man, Cornishman - Thursday 02 November 1899, p5.
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