Madron is a
civil parish and village in west
Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is a large rural parish on the
Penwith peninsula north of
Penzance. It is bounded by the parishes of
Sancreed and
St Just to the west, by
Zennor and
Morvah to the north, by the sea and the
parish of Paul in the south and by the parishes of
Gulval and
Penzance to the east. Madron village is situated approximately two miles (3 km) northwest of Penzance town centre. The main villages and hamets are
Tredinnick, Lower Ninnes,
New Mill,
Newbridge and
Tregavarah. The population was 1,466 at the 2001
census, rising to 1,591 at the 2011 census. The
parish church, is in the
churchtown and is dedicated to Madron (or Madrona) (in local dialect "Maddern"). The word Modron appears in Cornish and Welsh literature, Modron being the mother goddess, mother of
Mabon (after whom the parish and village of
St Mabyn is named).