marazion's Usage Examples:

The rise and progress of the neighbouring borough of Penzance in the 17th century was the undoing of Marazion.

Marazion was once a flourishing town, and owed its prosperity to the throng of pilgrims who came to visit St Michael's Mount.

It is frequently stated that Marazion had formerly the right of returning two members to parliament, but that owing to its inability to pay the members' expenses the right was lost.

In 1595 Queen Elizabeth granted to Marazion a charter of incorporation.

He transferred in fact the fairs and markets from the demesne lands of the Bloyous in Marazion to those of the prior.

The charter attributed to Robert count of Mortain, granting lands and liberties to St Michael's Mount, opposite Marazion, included a market on Thursdays.

A causeway of boulders and pebbles, thrown up by the sea and passable at low tide, unites Marazion with the insular St Michael's Mount (q.v.).

MARAZION, a small seaport in the St Ives parliamentary division of Cornwall, England, on the shore of Mount's Bay, 2 m.