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Holywell (Cornish: Tregew) [1] is a coastal village in the civil parish of Cubert (Cornish: Lannowyn), in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is at Holywell Bay ( Cornish : Porth Heylyn ), [ 1 ] about three miles (5 km) west-southwest of Newquay .
"The Harbour, Polperro" by Edward Frederick Ertz (full-page colour plate from: "Britain Beautiful". 4 vols. London: Hutchinson, 1924–26). The date of the building of Polperro's older quay is uncertain but Jonathan Couch (writing in the mid-19th century) considered that it is either the one mentioned by John Leland (who wrote in the first half of the 16th century) or one built upon the same site.
This is a list of towns and villages in the ceremonial county of Cornwall, United Kingdom. The ceremonial county includes the unitary authorities of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. In accordance with gazetteers, Cornish names are in the standard written form approved by the Maga signage panel. [1] [2] [3] [4]
St Michael's Mount (Cornish: Karrek Loos yn Koos, [1] meaning "hoar rock in woodland") [2] is a tidal island in Mount's Bay near Penzance, Cornwall, England (United Kingdom).The island is a civil parish and is linked to the town of Marazion by a causeway of granite setts, passable (as is the beach) between mid-tide and low water.
One of Cornwall's five Marilyns. Summit dominated by spoil heaps of china clay mine Condolden Barrow [4] Condolden. 308 50 TuMP Cornish Killas: Summit trig point, Bronze Age barrows. Second highest point in Cornwall outside Bodmin Moor. Hawk's Tor, Blisland [4] 307 61 TuMP Brown Willy: East Bodmin Moor: Summit is the outcrop next to the trig point.
View from Lizard Point Lizard Point seen from near the Youth Hostel. Lizard Point (Cornish: Penn Lysardh) in Cornwall is at the southern tip of the Lizard Peninsula.It is situated half-a-mile (800 m) south of Lizard village in the civil parish of Landewednack and about 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Helston.
The Doom Bar at low tide, with the river channel on the far side. The Doom Bar is a sandbar at the mouth of the Camel estuary on the north coast of Cornwall. The bar is composed mostly of coarse sediment carried up from the seabed by bed load processes, and it has been shown that there is a net inflow of sediment into the estuary. [2]
Cape Cornwall (Cornish: Kilgoodh, meaning "goose back") [1] is a small headland in West Cornwall, England. It is 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Land's End near the town of St Just . [ 2 ] Until the first Ordnance Survey in the early 19th-century, Cape Cornwall was believed to be the most westerly point in Cornwall.