Penryn, a Cornish market town at the head of Falmouth harbour; has manufactures of paper, woollen cloth, and gunpowder. It has considerable fishing industry, and ships the Penryn granite quarried near.
Population (circa 1900) given as 3,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Penrith * Penseroso, II