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Long Rock

Long Rock 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.

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Long Rock
A view of Long Rock, from a helicopter
Long Rock
Location within Cornwall
OS grid referenceSW497315
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
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Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townPENZANCE
Postcode districtTR20
Dialling code01736
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
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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

The offshore rock that the village is named after source ↗

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

The former public toilets were sold at auction for £160,000 source ↗

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

A train runs along the Cornish Main Line source ↗
The GWR depot at Long Rock source ↗

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

The local community radio station is Coast FM (formerly Penwith Radio).7

Cornish wrestling

William Couch Jeffery (1826–1899),8 was from Long Rock and was champion middleweight9 of Cornwall for a quarter of a century including the 1840s and 1850s.101112 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.1312

Notes

Notes

  1. The Long Rock itself lies at grid reference SW498308.1
References

References

  1. OS Explorer Land's End (Map). Southampton: Ordnance Survey. 2015. ISBN 978 0 319 24304 6.
  2. "Marazion Marsh". RSPB. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  3. "The Opening of a New Wesleyan Chapel at Longrock, Ludgvan". The Cornishman. No. 573. 27 June 1889. p. 6.
  4. "Train Times". Great Western Railway. 14 December 2025. Retrieved 8 April 2026.
  5. Bennett, Alan (1988). The Great Western Railway in West Cornwall. Runpast Publications. ISBN 1-870754-12-3.
  6. "Long Rock bus services". Bustimes.org. Retrieved 8 April 2026.
  7. "Volunteer run Penwith Radio to change its name to Coast FM". Falmouthpacket.co.uk. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  8. Death of a Cornish wrestler, Cornubian and Redruth Times, 3 November 1899, p5.
  9. Wrestlers of the past, Cornishman - Thursday 28 January 1904, p5.
  10. Wrestling at Redruth, The Cornish Telegraph, 15 May 1884, p8.
  11. Wrestling at Redruth, Cornishman - Thursday 15 May 1884, p5.
  12. Death of a manly wrestler, Cornishman, 9 November 1899, p2.
  13. Death of a Cornish wrestler and respected man, Cornishman - Thursday 02 November 1899, p5.
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