Crim Rocks | |
Local Name: | Cornish: An Creeban |
Map: | United Kingdom Isles of Scilly |
Coordinates: | 49.8967°N -6.45°W |
Grid Reference: | SV802092 |
Archipelago: | Isles of Scilly |
Population: | 0 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Country Admin Divisions Title: | Civil parish |
Country Admin Divisions: | Bryher |
Crim Rocks (Cornish: Kribyn "little reef")[1] is a small group of uninhabited islands in the Isles of Scilly, England, United Kingdom.
The Crim Rocks are the most westward of the archipelago's Western Rocks,[2] [3] therefore making them the westernmost point of England. They are approximately north of Bishop Rock,[4] and about southwest of Zantman's Rock. The name may be cognate with the Middle Welsh "crimp" meaning "shin, ridge, or ledge."[2] The most conspicuous of the Crim Rocks is the Peaked Rock.[4] At least thirty ships are known to have been wrecked on the Crims.[3]