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.
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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.

Railway station
serves the twin towns of East and West Looe, in , England. The station is the terminus of the scenic Looe Valley Line 8+3⁄4 miles south of . It faces out across the estuary of the River Looe.

Island
Photo: Pyrotek, Public domain.
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 , .

Museum
The Old Guildhall is a municipal building in Higher Market Street in Looe, , 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.

is a large village, civil parish, and fishing harbour within the Heritage Coastline in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Its population is around 1,554.

Hamlet
is a hamlet in the parish of in southeast , England, UK. is situated 2 miles west of Looe.

Hamlet
No Man's Land is a crossroads hamlet in south-east , England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately two miles northeast of Looe on the B3253 road to . is situated 2½ miles northeast of Looe.

Looe

Latitude
50.3523° or 50° 21′ 8″ north
Longitude
-4.4542° or 4° 27′ 15″ west
Population
5,110
Elevation
131 feet (40 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB LOE
Open location code
9C2Q9G2W+W8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2579328956
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3345093
Wiki­data ID
Q1024896
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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:
  • 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.