West Looe
West Looe is a village in Morval, Cornwall, England. West Looe is situated nearby to the village Hannafore, as well as near the suburb Plaidy.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: settlement in Cornwall, England
- Also known as: “Looe” and “West Looe, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Nicholas’ Church, West Looe and Old Guildhall, Looe.
St Nicholas’ Church, West Looe
Church
St Nicholas’ Church, West Looe is a Church of England parish church in Looe, Cornwall.
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 Looe and Plaidy.
Looe
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Plaidy
Suburb
Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Plaidy is an eastern suburb of Looe, Cornwall, England, UK. Plaidy Beach is a sandy beach and Millendreath Beach is at its eastern end. The writer Eleanor Hibbert lived near Plaidy Beach during World War II and used it as the basis for one of her pen names, Jean Plaidy.
Millendreath
Locality
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Millendreath is a hamlet in the parish of St Martin-by-Looe, Cornwall, England, situated two miles east of the town of Looe. A station was to be built at Millendreath as part of the proposed St Germans & Looe Railway in the late 1930s, but the railway was abandoned without the station having been built.
West Looe
- Categories: civil parish, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Morval, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.35311° or 50° 21′ 11″ northLongitude
-4.45831° or 4° 27′ 30″ westElevation
433 feet (132 metres)Open location code
9C2Q9G3R+6MOpenStreetMap ID
node 60171350OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Cornish to Welsh—“West Looe” goes by many names.
- Cornish: “Porthbyghan”
- Irish: “Looe Thiar”
- Ladin: “West Looe”
- Latin: “West Looe”
- Swedish: “West Looe”
- Welsh: “Porthbyghan”
- “West Looe”
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