PENSILVA is a large village, 2 ½ miles north-west, inhabited chiefly by miners, and has a school-room licensed for divine service. Here are Wesleyan and Bible Christian chapels, and a place of worship belonging to the Methodist United Free Church. The population is about 1,300.

National School, Pensilva, built in 1841, for 260 children; average attendance, 59 boys, 52 girls & 53 infants.