Long Rock
| Long Rock | |
| Cornwall | |
|---|---|
 Signpost on Long Rock Beach | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SW497315 |
| Location: | 50°7’44"N, 5°30’2"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 500 (est.) |
| Post town: | Penzance |
| Postcode: | TR20 |
| Dialling code: | 01736 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
St Ives |
Long Rock is a village in south-western Cornwall, generally disregarded as overshadowed by its popular neighbours, it is most frequented for its out-of-town supermarket.
The village is to be found a mile east of Penzance and a mile and a half west of Marazion (and belonging to the civil parish of Ludgvan), on the shore of Mount's Bay at the centre of the three-mile beach which stretches from Penzance to Marazion. The beach is backed by a seawall along which runs the main line railway.
A dual carriageway bypass carries the A30 road north of the village and the land beside the road has been extensively developed with light industry and a retail park. Penzance Heliport used to be situated between Long Rock and Penzance and provided scheduled helicopter flights to the Isles of Scilly but it was recently demolished and now there is a Sainsburys supermarket on the site.
About the village
The nearest primary schools are located in Gulval and Ludgvan, with the nearest secondary school, Humphry Davy School, in Penzance.
Village facilities include a shop, post office, two pubs (one of them also a B & B), a care home, an equestrian and agricultural supplier, a hall, 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.
Marazion Marsh, an RSPB nature reserve leased from Lord St Levan, is situated half-a-mile east of the village[1]
Transport
Long Rock is the site of a locomotive shed. Formerly catering to steam locomotives, it is the most south-westerly depot on the former Great Western Railway's system. Now known as Penzance TMD, it is a refuelling and servicing depot for diesel locomotives and HST sets.[2]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Long Rock) |
References
- ↑ RSPB: Marazion Marsh
- ↑ * Great Western Railway in West Cornwall, Alan Bennett, Run Past Publications, ISBN 1-870754-12-3