Penryn
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Penryn is a Cornish
Cornish language
Cornish is a Brythonic Celtic language and a recognised minority language of the United Kingdom. Along with Welsh and Breton, it is directly descended from the ancient British language spoken throughout much of Britain before the English language came to dominate...

word meaning 'headland' that may refer to:
  • Penryn, Cornwall
    Penryn, Cornwall
    Penryn is a civil parish and town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated on the Penryn River about one mile northwest of Falmouth...

    , United Kingdom, a town of about 7,000 on the River Penryn
  • Penryn (UK Parliament constituency)
    Penryn (UK Parliament constituency)
    Penryn was a parliamentary borough in Cornwall, which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of England from 1553 until 1707, to the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and finally to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to until 1832...

     a former constituency based on Penryn, Cornwall
  • Penryn, California
    Penryn, California
    Penryn is a census-designated place in Placer County, California, in the United States. Geographic location is . Penryn is located northeast of Rocklin. The community's ZIP code is 95663 and the area code 916...

    , in the United States, a town of about 2,000 and home to a granite quarry
  • Penryn (microprocessor)
    Penryn (microprocessor)
    Penryn is the code name of a processor from Intel that is sold in varying configurations as Core 2 Solo, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, Pentium and Celeron....

    , code name for a CPU from Intel, used in Core 2 Duo

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Penrhyn is a Welsh
Welsh language
Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...

 word meaning 'headland' that may refer to:
  • Penrhyn Bay
    Penrhyn Bay
    Penrhyn Bay is a small town on the north Wales coast, in Conwy county borough, within the parish or community of Llandudno, and part of the ecclesiastical parish of Llanrhos. It is a prosperous village with a cluster of local shops, a pub, a parish church and a modern medical centre with doctors'...

    , a small town on the North Wales coast
  • Penrhyn Castle
    Penrhyn Castle
    Penrhyn Castle is a country house in Llandegai, Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales, in the form of a Norman castle. It was originally a medieval fortified manor house, founded by Ednyfed Fychan. In 1438, Ioan ap Gruffudd was granted a licence to crenellate and he founded the stone castle and added a...

    , a country house in North Wales
  • Penrhyn (atoll), in the Cook Islands in the South Pacific
  • Penrhyn Quarry
    Penrhyn Quarry
    The Penrhyn Slate Quarry is a slate quarry located near Bethesda in north Wales. At the end of the nineteenth century it was the world's largest slate quarry; the main pit is nearly long and deep, and it was worked by nearly 3,000 quarrymen. It has since been superseded in size by slate quarries...

    , a slate quarry near Bethesda in North Wales
  • Penrhyn Quarry Railway
    Penrhyn Quarry Railway
    The Penrhyn Quarry Railway first opened in 1798 as the Llandegai Tramway; it became the Penrhyn Railway in 1801 although on a different route. Constructed to transport slate from Lord Penrhyn's slate quarries at Bethesda to Port Penrhyn at Bangor, Wales. The railway was around six miles long...

    , a railway serving the Penrhyn Quarry
  • Penrhyn railway station
    Penrhyn railway station
    Penrhyn station on the Ffestiniog Railway is located on a restricted site at Pen-y-Bwlch above the town of Penrhyndeudraeth ....

    , a station serving the village of Penrhyndeudraeth on the Ffestiniog Railway
  • Port Penrhyn
    Port Penrhyn
    Port Penrhyn is a harbour located just east of Bangor in north Wales at the mouth of the River Cegin. It was formerly of great importance as the main port for the export of slate from the Penrhyn Quarry, the largest slate quarry in the world at the end of the nineteenth century...

    , a port serving the Penrhyn Quarry

  • Penrhyn-coch
    Penrhyn-coch
    Penrhyn-coch is a small Welsh village, in the community of Trefeurig, Ceredigion, located between the Afon Stewi and Nant Seilo rivers, close to where they merge into the Afon Clarach. The village is approximately 4½ miles north-east of Aberystwyth....

    , a village in Ceredigion, West Wales
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