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Early History

Not much information is available on the early history of this station due to the custom of retaining records for a limited period of time, after which they are destroyed. The information we do have is from the research of SO Dave Jackson MBE and from the kind help of many local people with good, long memories.

Sennen Coastguard Station was built in the 1812 and consisted of a row of eight houses, a fuel house and a store which housed the Rocket Cart and Rescue Equipment and Mr Phillips of Mayon Farm supplied a team of horses to haul the cart. A building, which now forms part of the cove Mini Market, was used to house the Revenue Cutters which were manned by the Coastguard Service for the purposes of preventing smuggling and for saving life at sea. At the time the Coastguard Headquarters was located in nearby Penzance.

In 1891 a granite lookout was built on the cliffs at Ped-Men-Due and this still stands although it is now used as a store by the National Trust.