Penryn

Penryn is a Cornish word meaning 'headland' that may refer to:

• Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom, a town of about 7,000 on the Penryn River
• Penryn (UK Parliament constituency) a former constituency based on Penryn, Cornwall
• Penryn RFC, an English and Cornish rugby union club based in the town of the same name
• Penryn, California, in the United States, a town of about 2,000 and home to a granite quarry
• Penryn (microarchitecture), code name for a CPU core from Intel, used in Core 2 Duo
• Penryn (microprocessor), code name for a microprocessor die from Intel, used in mobile Core 2 Duo

Penrhyn is a Welsh word meaning 'headland' that may refer to:

• Baron Penrhyn, a title of peerage
• Penrhyn Bay, a small town on the North Wales coast
• Penrhyn Castle, a country house in North Wales
  • Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum
• Penrhyn (atoll), in the Cook Islands in the South Pacific
• Penrhyn, Ipswich, a heritage-listed house in Queensland, Australia
• Penrhyn Quarry, a slate quarry near Bethesda in North Wales
• Penrhyn Quarry Railway, a railway serving the Penrhyn Quarry
• Penrhyn railway station, a station serving the village of Penrhyndeudraeth on the Ffestiniog Railway
• Port Penrhyn, a port serving the Penrhyn Quarry
• Penrhyn-coch, a village in Ceredigion, West Wales

See also

• Penrhyndeudraeth, a village near Porthmadog, Gwynedd
• Penrhyn language, a language spoken in the Cook Islands