Penryn
"head of the river," a town of Cornwall, England; at the head of a creek of Falmouth harbor, 3 miles N.
W. of Falmouth town. Scarce a trace remains of Glasney College, founded in 1264 for 13 Black Augustinian Canons; and none of a palace of the bishops of Exeter. Neighboring quarries supply the famous Penryn granite-the material of Waterloo Bridge, the Chatham docks, and other great public works; and the town has besides some manufactures of paper, woolen cloth, gunpowder, etc.
Incorporated by James I., it was taken by Fairfax in 1646.