"..Newlyn has an interesting geographical location. Situated on the shores of Mouts Bay to the south of the range of granite hills which form the backbone of the Penwith peninsula, the scenery is in sharp contrast to that of the high rocky cliffs and inaccessible shoreline of the north coast of Cornwall..."

"...The village as we know it today has evolved from a number of small hamlets. Tolcarne, to the north of the Newlyn river, mainly an industrial area until the late nineteenth century, was part of the parish of Madron until 1848, when the ecclesiastical parish of Newlyn St.Peter was formed. Street-an-Nowan lies to the south of the river and includes the area known as the Fragdan. This 'Street-an-Nowan' is believed to derive from the Cornish Stret an oghen, street of the oxen, or ox-way, and 'Fragdan' has the same meaning from forth oghen, ox road. Newlyn 'town' on the cliff at the top of the hill evolved as a fishing community, its houses clustered around the medieval quay. As the village grew and linked these three areas it also absorbed farming communities including Trewarveneth, Chywoone and Gwavas. The name 'Newlyn' is used here to denote a sheltered anchorage. The first recorded use of the name was in 1278 and it refers to the deep-water anchorage between Newlyn and Mousehole known as Gwavas lake, sheltered from prevailing west and south-west winds. In the 16th century Leland wrote: .....also in the bay is a good road for ships called Gwavas Lake.

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