St Anthony-in-Meneage

St Anthony-in-Meneage is a coastal civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish is in the Meneage district of the Lizard peninsula. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 171, decreasing to 168 at the 2011 census.
The hamlet is on a peninsula between the Helford River and Gillan Harbour on the west side of Falmouth Bay, five miles south of Falmouth and seven miles east of Helston at grid reference SW 782 256. It largely consists of a church, the former vicarage, a farmhouse, and various converted farm buildings now used as holiday accommodation. The peninsula ends at Dennis Head, the site of an early Celtic fortress. Later it served as a Royalist stronghold during the Civil War, and provided a lookout point for the Home Guard during the Second World War.

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