Ludgvan (/ˈlʌdʒən/ LUJ-ən; Cornish: Lujuan)[1] is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, UK, 2+1⁄2 miles (4 km) northeast of Penzance.

Ludgvan village is split between Churchtown, on the hill, and Lower Quarter to the east, adjoining Crowlas.

[5] The Lords of the manor of Ludgvan Lese kept certain shipping rights within the port of St Ives up to and possibly beyond the 19th century.

It was held by Richard from Robert, Count of Mortain; there were 12 ploughs, 8 serfs, 14 villeins and 40 smallholders.

[7] Perhaps Treguwal (etymology: Tre = farm, place; Guwal, gweal = arable land) is either the nearby village of Gulval or a medieval name of Ludgvan's lower quarter.

Early spellings of the place-name vary between forms with and without 'Saint' referencing and differentiating the church and its surrounding churchtown.

[9] The feast traditionally celebrated in the parish is the Sunday nearest to 22 January, in observation of the Conversion of St Paul.

[10][11] The last church services conducted in Cornish were in Ludgvan in the late 17th century (this claim is also made for Towednack).

The mine was reopened in December 1879 with an adit being cut, machinery erected to pump out the water and to sink a shaft.

To the north west of the parish and erected on the southern rampart of the ancient hill fort of Castle-an-Dinas, circa late 1700s is a gothic style folly called Rogers' Tower.

[19] The St Michael’s Way pilgrim trail, established in 1994,[20] has more than half of its 12.5 miles (20 km) length on public footpaths and minor roads within Ludgvan civil parish.

[21] The trail enters the civil parish from St Ives on a footpath just north of Bowl Rock.

[27][28][29] After one such occasion, at the Penzance tournament, he was marched from one end of the town to the other accompanied by the mayor, several dignitaries and a band.