Newlyn

Newlyn (Cornish: ''Lulynn'') is a town in southwest Cornwall , UK . The town forms a small Conurbation with neighbouring Penzance , and part of the Civil Parish of Penzance. The principal industry in Newlyn is Fishing , and the town relies upon its harbour.

The UK National Tidal And Sea Level Facility (NTSLF) maintains a Tidal observatory at Newlyn, and the UK Fundamental Benchmark is maintained there. The Ordnance Survey , Britain 's Mapping agency, used to base all Contour lines and spot heights on the mean Sea Level at Newlyn defined by this benchmark.

ART IN NEWLYN

It was made famous in the 1880s and 1890s for its Newlyn School Artists' Colony , including the painters Thomas Cooper Gotch , Albert Chevallier Tayler and Henry Scott Tuke .

:See also: Newlyn Copper

LOCATIONS IN NEWLYN

Newlyn harbour is the largest fishing port(by turnover >£18 million 2004) in England. The fishing fleet boasts a number of different catching methods: beam trawling, trawling, gill netting, potting and a large number of under 10m vessels that fish inshore. The port was a major catcher of Pilchards until the 1960s. Today, a handful of vessels have resumed pilchard fishing and use a modern version of the ring net. The largest vessels are beam trawlers owned by the Stevenson family. Most of the other vessels are owned by their skippers.

Sandy Cove is the name given to the small bay immediately south of the harbour wall.

EXTERNAL LINKS

	CATEGORIES ABOUT NEWLYN

	towns in cornwall

	ports and harbours of cornwall

Information About