Whitesand Bay
Whitesand Bay is a wide sandy bay near Land's End in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It stretches for one mile between the headlands of Pedn-mên-du and Aire Point. and contains the village of Sennen Cove.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Land’s End Airport and Porth Nanven.
Land’s End Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: CornwallFlyer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Land's End Airport, situated near St Just in Penwith, 5 NM west of Penzance, in Cornwall, is the most south westerly airport of mainland Britain. The airport is owned by the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company.
Porth Nanven
Beach
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Porth Nanven is a beach in the far west of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is located half-a-mile west of the town of St Just. The beach is at the seaward end of the Cot Valley and is part of the Aire Point To Carrick Du Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Ballowall Barrow
Archaeological site
Photo: Frances Watts, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ballowall Barrow is a prehistoric funerary cairn which Ashbee and Hencken state contains several phases of use from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. It is situated on the cliff top at Ballowall Common, near St Just in Cornwall, England, UK. Ballowall Barrow is situated 1½ miles north of Whitesand Bay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cot Valley and Kelynack.
Cot Valley
Locality
Cot Valley is located half-a-mile south of St Just in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It has a very mild microclimate. The stream which runs down the valley discharges into the Atlantic Ocean at Nanven.
Kelynack
Hamlet
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kelynack is a settlement in west Cornwall, England, UK.
Escalls
Hamlet
Photo: Sheila Russell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Escalls is a hamlet in the civil parish of Sennen on the Penwith peninsula in west Cornwall, England, UK.
Whitesand Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Cornwall, England, UK
- Category: body of water
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Whitesand Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Whitesand Bay (luuk sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
- Cebuano: “Whitesand Bay”
- Cornish: “Porth Senan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Whitesand Bay”
- Russian: “Уайтсанд”
- Swedish: “Whitesand Bay (vik i Storbritannien)”
- Swedish: “Whitesand Bay”
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