Looe
Looe is a picturesque town on the coast of South Cornwall. Looe's main business is tourism, with much of the town given over to hotels, guest houses and holiday homes, along with a large number of pubs, restaurants and beach equipment, ice cream and Cornish pasty vendors.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,110 residents
- Description: coastal town, fishing port and civil parish in south-east Cornwall, UK
- Also known as: “Logh”, “Looe civil parish”, “Looe CP”, and “Looe, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Looe railway station and Looe Island.
Looe railway station
Railway station
Photo: Andrewrabbott, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Looe railway station serves the twin towns of East and West Looe, in Cornwall, England. The station is the terminus of the scenic Looe Valley Line 8+3⁄4 miles south of Liskeard. It faces out across the estuary of the River Looe.
Looe Island
Island
Photo: Pyrotek, Public domain.
Looe Island nature reserve, also known as St George's Island, and historically St Michael's Island is a small island nature reserve a mile from the mainland town of Looe off Cornwall, England.
Old Guildhall, Looe
Museum
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Old Guildhall is a municipal building in Higher Market Street in Looe, Cornwall, England. The structure, which is currently used as a museum, is a Grade II* listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Polperro and Barcelona.
Polperro
Photo: ThinkingGuy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Polperro is a large village, civil parish, and fishing harbour within the Polperro Heritage Coastline in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Its population is around 1,554.
Barcelona
Hamlet
Barcelona is a hamlet in the parish of Pelynt in southeast Cornwall, England, UK. Barcelona is situated 2 miles west of Looe.
No Man’s Land
Hamlet
Photo: Mark Evison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
No Man's Land is a crossroads hamlet in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately two miles northeast of Looe on the B3253 road to Widegates. No Man’s Land is situated 2½ miles northeast of Looe.
Looe
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: South Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.3523° or 50° 21′ 8″ northLongitude
-4.4542° or 4° 27′ 15″ westPopulation
5,110Elevation
131 feet (40 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB LOEOpen location code
9C2Q9G2W+W8OpenStreetMap ID
node 2579328956OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Looe” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Looe”
- Basque: “Looe”
- Bengali: “লুও”
- Breton: “Logh”
- Breton: “Looe”
- Breton: “Porthbyghan”
- Cebuano: “Looe”
- Chinese: “Looe”
- Chinese: “卢港”
- Chinese: “盧港”
- Cornish: “Logh”
- Cornish: “Porth Byan”
- Dutch: “Looe”
- Esperanto: “Looe”
- French: “Looe”
- German: “Looe”
- Gujarati: “લૂઇ”
- Hebrew: “לו”
- Irish: “Logh”
- Irish: “Looe”
- Italian: “Looe”
- Japanese: “ルー”
- Kannada: “ಲೂಯೆ”
- Korean: “루”
- Ladin: “Looe”
- Latin: “East Looe”
- Latin: “Looe”
- Lithuanian: “Lo”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Looe”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Looe”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Looe”
- Norwegian: “Looe”
- Persian: “لو”
- Polish: “Looe”
- Portuguese: “Looe”
- Romanian: “Looe”
- Russian: “Лу”
- South Azerbaijani: “لو”
- Spanish: “Looe”
- Swedish: “Looe”
- Tamil: “லூயீ”
- Telugu: “లూయి”
- Turkish: “Looe”
- Ukrainian: “Лу”
- Urdu: “لوی”
- Welsh: “Logh”
- Welsh: “Looe”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Looe”. Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.