St Buryan is in the Deanery and Hundred of Penwith. It is in the Land's End district and is located in the far West of Cornwall. It is bounded on the North by the parishes of Sancreed and St Just, by Sennen and St Levan (to which it is closely connected) on the West, Paul to the East, and on the South by the ocean. St. Buryan is recorded in the Domesday book of 1086 Beside the Churchtown, the villages are Boscawen-oon, Boscawen -rose, Penberth Cove, Rosemodress, Tregagwith, Trelew, Tregurno, Trevorgans and Trevorrian