Madron (Cornish: Eglos Madern) is a civil parish and village in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

[1] The main villages and hamets are Tredinnick, Lower Ninnes, New Mill, Newbridge and Tregavarah.

[3] The parish church is in the churchtown and is dedicated to St Madron (or Madrona) (in local dialect "Maddern").

One was found in the wall of the village church and has since been removed; the inscription consists of a cross and legible text, but its meaning is not clear.

It was within the Manor of Alverton, an area that in the Anglo-Saxon and medieval period formed much of what is now the southern part of west Penwith.

The news of the death of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson following the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 was received first in Britain by the arrival of HMS Pickle en route to Falmouth under the command of Lieut.

Storms in the English Channel meant that Nelson's body did not arrive by sea in London until January 1806.

Designed by George Gilbert Scott and William Bonython Moffatt, it was intended to house four hundred paupers and cost £6,050 to build.

The Western Hunt traditionally meets at Madron on Feast Monday and also on Boxing Day.

Under the 1934 restructure of local government the then Penzance Borough Council made representation to include the village of Madron within its boundaries but due to strong local resistance this move was defeated, most of the parish becoming part of West Penwith Rural District The nearby settlement of Heamoor (until 1934 part of the parish) was included within the revised boundaries of the borough and remains part of the parish of Penzance to this day.

[14] The school is next to the parish church with a view over Penzance and Mount's Bay and has a cottage for the headmaster on site.

A May Day tradition, which was still being observed in 1879, was for many young folks (mainly girls) to head from Penzance before sunrise, to perform a ceremony, to learn the number of years they have to wait before they get married.

Ivy and wild roses creep over the walls and ferns grow from between the granite blocks.