The village is situated one mile (1.6 km) west of Penryn.
Back home in North Wales, G. G., like his father before him, worked in the Penrhyn Slate Quarry.
The village is now a suburb on the northern edge of Penryn which is situated two miles northwest of Falmouth.
On the death of his great uncle, Francis Enys in 1821 he inherited the Enys Estate, near Penryn, Cornwall and was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1824.
Axle counters allow one train to be in the section between Penwithers Junction and Penryn, and another between Penryn and Falmouth Docks.
In Gwynedd the Penryn, Vaynol, and Tanybwlch quarrying estates had large numbers of cannon.