Priests Cove
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St Just in Penwith
St Just is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish encompasses the town of St Just and the nearby settlements of Trewellard, Pendeen and Kelynack: it is bounded by the parishes of Morvah to the north-east, Sancreed and Madron to the east, St Buryan and Sennen to...
, Cornwall
Cornwall
Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...
, UK. The name is from the Cornish Porth Just or Por’ Eust the port or cove of St Just. "Priest’s" is a spelling mistake on the Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey , an executive agency and non-ministerial government department of the Government of the United Kingdom, is the national mapping agency for Great Britain, producing maps of Great Britain , and one of the world's largest producers of maps.The name reflects its creation together with...
and there is no connection with the clergy. The cove and surrounding area is designated as part of the Aire Point To Carrick Du Site of Special Scientific Interest
Site of Special Scientific Interest
A Site of Special Scientific Interest is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based upon...
(SSSI).
Approximately 1 miles (1.6 km) out to sea are the Brisons
Brisons
The Brisons is a twin-peaked islet in the Atlantic situated 1 mile offshore from Cape Cornwall in Cornwall, United Kingdom.The Brisons are 22 and 27 metres high and often said to resemble General Charles de Gaulle lying on his back....
, a pair of small islands to which an annual swim is held.