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Gwennap Head ((コーンウォール語:Toll Pedn Pennwydh), meaning ''holed head of Penwith'') () is a headland on the south coast of the Penwith peninsula, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is within the parish of St Levan and approximately south of Land's End, and less than north-west of Porthgwarra, the nearest village. The area of Gwennap Head is designated as part of the Penwith Heritage Coast and also designated as part of the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The South West Coast Path closely follows the coastline around the headland. Its intricate and varied granite cliffs include the famous Chair Ladder crag, making it a popular destination for recreational climbers of all abilities. The older and more correct name for the headland is Tol-Pedn-Penwith (locally "Tol-Pedn" for short) which comes from the Cornish for 'the holed headland of Penwith', referring to the awesome vertical blowhole from the clifftop to a sea cave. From 1888 the name was changed to Gwennap Head, perhaps named after a local family.〔Weatherhill C. (2007) Cornish Place Names and Language. Ammanford: Sigma Press.〕 The inshore waters around the headland are busy with shipping of all sizes. There is a Coastwatch station on the headland in the former coastguard building. The area is also popular with naturalists who, at the appropriate time of the year, can see rare animals such as chough (''Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax''), great shearwater (''Puffinus gravis''), basking shark and ocean sunfish (''Mola mola''). ==History== Tol Pedn was once known as Land’s End, and in the early 19th century was usually called St Leven’s Land’s End in order to distinguish it from the present day Land’s End, which was then called Sennen Land’s End and Cape Cornwall which has also been known as Land's End. It would seem that, in the past Tol-pedn was considered to be a larger area, than what is today considered to be the headland of Gwennap Head. Hitchens (1824) writes that ″''Tolpedn-Penwith is divided from the mainland by an ancient stone wall''″, which he thought might have been for defence.〔 A stone wall exists to this day to the north reaching the sea near Black Carn although it seems to be a boundary and/or stock wall rather than defensive. He also indicates that there was other evidence for ancient fortifications in the area. In the 1840s H McLauchlan reported seeing ″faint traces of a Bronze Age tumulus at the top″ of Tol-pedn-Penwith, although today there are no traces, and the highest point is now occupied by the NCI Coastwatch station. Reports of a cliff castle are considered doubtful, partly because there are no traces but also because the site is considered unsuitable. On the north side of Gwennap Head is a stream that flows into the boulder-strewn cove of Porth Loe. On 14 March the ''Kyber'' was observed from the Wolf Rock, on a bearing to pass the The Lizard. The next morning the barque was seen coming ashore at Porth Loe and broke up within fifteen minutes. Men building the nearby coastguard houses used ladders to save three of the crew and a further twenty-three are buried in a mass grave in St Levan churchyard. The area is owned by the St Aubyn Estate.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gwennap Head」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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