SAINT IVES

town (parish), Penwith district, administrative and historic county of Cornwall, England. In 1497 the pretender Perkin Warbeck was proclaimed king when he anchored in St. Ives harbour. Clustered around the harbour is the old town of winding streets and colour-washed stone cottages housing fishermen, artists, and potters. Fishing and tin mining were important until the late 19th century; since then the mild climate and sandy beaches have attracted vacationers, and tourism has become the economic base. The name St. Ives has been given to a style of pottery established there by Bernard Leach in 1920. Pop. (1991) 10,092. town (parish), Huntingdonshire district, administrative county of Cambridgeshire, historic county of Huntingdonshire, England, on the north bank of the River Ouse. It was originally a village called Slepe. St. Ives was granted an eight-day fair by Henry I in 1110 and developed in consequence until the fair was suspended during the Black Death (1349). A six-arched bridge (c. 1415), with a chapel over the central pier, spans the Ouse. Pop. (1991) 10,092.