SENNEN parish, in the Hundred of Penwith, is the most
westerly parish in mainland Britain. Adjoining parishes are St Just
in Penwith to the north. St Buryan to the east, St Levan south and
28 miles to the west is the parish of the Isles of Scilly sitting in
the Atlantic Ocean.
The Parish includes Land's End, which attracts thousands of visitors each year. Tourism here has been going on for hundreds of years and the people of the parish have also changed quite a lot in that time, with families moving out and new ones moving in. This makes the parish, and census records, a goldmine of information. Hopefully you will find some "lost" ancestors hiding here.
The Online Parish Clerks for Sennen are George & Sandra Pritchard, who can be reached by Email.
A Message from the OPCs:
The items shown in the categories below, and miscellaneous items including articles on Sennen Mining, Fishing, Farming, Smuggling and Quakers, are available with just a click of your mouse.
We joined the OPC scheme when it was first set up and have, with the help of others, transcribed and placed on-line many parish records. Please see the list below. It does not cover all the information in our possession, however. If you would like information on a subject dealing with Sennen, or Cornwall, other than those shown below, please do contact us.
George and Sandra
Full transcripts of Census records 1841 – 1851 – 1861 – 1871 – 1881 – 1891 - 1901 are available on our website, link above.
Full transcripts of the following Parish Registers are available on our website, link above.
Trade Directories 1852 – 1863 – 1878 – 1883 – 1893 – 1919; full transcripts are available on our website, link above.
See our website (link above) for full transcripts of the Tithe Apportionment of 1838, including maps, lists of field numbers, and names; plus photos of dwellings and views linked to the lists . . .
The Sennen War Memorial photos and names, plus a list of those from Sennen who saw service in the First and Second World Wars . . .
Cornwall Subsidies 1545, The 1569 Muster Roll, 1661 Free & Voluntary, 1662 Hearth Tax.
For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Sennen can be located at coordinates A - 2.
For further map information, please visit GenUKI (Genealogy - United Kingdom & Ireland).
To see a current, zoomable Ordnance Survey map, please visit
MultiMap, or for maps and satellite
images use
Google Maps.
