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The Eddystone or Eddystone Rocks are a seaswept and eroded group of rocks ranging 9 miles (14 km) southwest of Rame Head in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.Although the nearest point on the mainland to the Eddystone is in Cornwall, the rocks fall within the city limits of Plymouth, and hence within the county of Devon.
Wolf Rock Lighthouse is on the Wolf Rock (Cornish: An Welv, meaning the lip), [1] a single rock located 18 nautical miles (33 km; 21 mi) east of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly and 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) southwest of Land's End, in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. [2]
The Carracks (Cornish: Kerrek, meaning rocks) and Little Carracks (Cornish: Karrek an Ydhyn, meaning rock of the birds) are a group of small rocky inshore islands off the Atlantic north coast of west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The name comes from "carrek", the Cornish language word for 'rock'.
Rosevear (Cornish: Ros Veur "great promontory") [1] is the largest (0.63 hectares (1.6 acres)) of the group of rocks known as the Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly.The islands are on eastern side of the Atlantic Ocean on the south-west approaches to the island of Great Britain and are renowned for the numerous shipwrecks in the area and the nearby Bishop Rock lighthouse.
Topographic map of the seafloor between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall, showing location of the Seven Stones Reef. The Seven Stones reef is a rocky reef nearly 15 miles (24 km) west of Land's End, Cornwall and 7 miles (11 km) east-northeast of the Isles of Scilly. The reef consists of two groups of rocks and is nearly 2 miles (3.2 km) long ...
Map of SSSIs in Cornwall within the UK St Michael's Mount, a SSSI in west Cornwall There are 167 Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in Cornwall (including the Isles of Scilly ). Cornwall , in the south-west of England, UK, has a population of 575,413 (2022) across an area of 3,545 km 2 (875,988.6 acres), making it one of the least ...
Carnewas and Bedruthan Steps (Cornish: Karn Havos, meaning "rock-pile of summer dwelling" and Cornish: Bos Rudhen, meaning "Red-one's dwelling") is a stretch of coastline located on the north Cornish coast between Padstow and Newquay, in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. [1] It is within the parish of St Eval and is part-owned by the National ...
Twelve O'Clock rock, Trink Hill. A Round barrow exists at the summit, an OS Trig point within it. [2] A stone named after the nearby Giew Mine (or Trink Hill menhir) stands on the western slope of the hill. [3] [4] Twelve O'Clock Rock is a granite outcrop, supposed to be an unusual logan stone in that it can only be rocked at midnight.