The parish and Borough town of St Ives are situated in the Deanery and Hundred of Penwith. The parish is bounded on the North by the Bristol Channel, on the East by St Ives Bay and Lelant, on the South by Lelant and Towednack, and on the West by Towednack and the ocean. In the Domesday Survey of 1086 it was taxed with Ludgvan Lees, being the senior manor which encompassed lands in Ludgvan, Lelant, St. Ives and Towednack. The parish of Halsetown was created from part of St Ives parish in 1849.