Roads and Routes: How West Penwith’s Transport Network Shaped Penzance

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Mining Traffic, Market Access and the Fragility of 19th-Century Infrastructure​

The rise of Penzance as a commercial harbour town depended not only on maritime ambition, but on the road network linking it to the wider peninsula.


Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, the town functioned as the principal coastal outlet for much of West Penwith. Ore, agricultural produce, fish and manufactured goods all relied upon overland transport before reaching the harbour...

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