The Gatehouse website record for Penryn Harbour Chain

In the civil parish of Penryn. In the historic county of Cornwall (Modern Authority of Cornwall, 1974 county of Cornwall).

Leland writes "The first creek on the north-west side of Falmouth Houbour leads to Penryn, where it divides into two. The smaller leads to Glassiney College, a kind of green nest or quagmire at Penryn, and the other to the parish church of Penryn, St Gluvias. One arm breaks out of Penryn Creek on each side before it reaches the town. Just below the place where the creek divides into two there are stakes and stone foundations set in the water, with a chain across a gap in the middle."
There are no remains and the site it is little know. Pirates were active in the area but the artillery forts of Pendennis and St Mawes must have made any such defence obsolete, although given the amount of smuggling in the area, the role of the harbour defence, a stacked fence and chain, may have been, at least in part, about revenue collection.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SW790342

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