Watergate Bay
Watergate Bay is a long bay or beach flanked by cliffs centred two miles NNE of Newquay below the B3276 Newquay to Padstow road near the hamlet of Tregurrian in Cornwall, United Kingdom.Photo: Jblackmore, Public domain.
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Cornwall, England, UK
- Also known as: “Porth Tregoryan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Carnewas and Bedruthan Steps and RAF St Eval.
Carnewas and Bedruthan Steps
Stone
Photo: David Cantrill, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carnewas and Bedruthan Steps is a stretch of coastline located on the north Cornish coast between Padstow and Newquay, in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
RAF St Eval
Military installation
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Royal Air Force St Eval or RAF St Eval is a former Royal Air Force station for the RAF Coastal Command, southwest of Padstow in Cornwall, England, UK. St Eval's primary role was to provide anti-submarine and anti-shipping patrols off the south west coast. RAF St Eval is situated 2½ miles east of Watergate Bay.
Downhill
Residential area
Downhill is a hamlet in the parish of St Eval, Cornwall, England. Downhill is situated 2 miles northeast of Watergate Bay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mawgan Porth and Trenance.
Mawgan Porth
Village
Mawgan Porth is a beach and small settlement in north Cornwall, England. It is north of Watergate Bay, approximately four miles north of Newquay, on the Atlantic Ocean coast.
Trenance
Village
Photo: David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Trenance is a hamlet adjoining Mawgan Porth in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Trenance Point is a headland nearby. There are also places called Trenance in the parishes of Mullion, Newquay, St Issey, St Keverne and St Wenn.
Trevarrian
Village
Trevarrian pronounced is a hamlet south of Mawgan Porth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Watergate Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Watergate Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Watergate Bay”
- Cornish: “Porth Tregurien”
- Italian: “Watergate Bay”
- Japanese: “ウォーターゲート湾”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Watergate Bay”
- Swedish: “Watergate Bay”
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Localities in the Area
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