Sancreed
Sancreed is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, approximately three miles west of Penzance. Sancreed civil parish encompasses the settlements of Bejouans, Bosvennen, Botreah, Drift, Sancreed Churchtown, Trenuggo, and Tregonnebris.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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- Type: Village with 632 residents
- Description: village in Cornwall, England, UK
- Also known as: “Sancreed, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Caer Bran and Drift Reservoir.
Caer Bran
Archaeological site
Photo: Malcolm Kewn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Caer Bran Hill Fort is an archaeological site near Sancreed and Carn Euny Iron Age village, on the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall.
Drift Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: Andy Roberts, CC BY 2.0.
Drift Reservoir is a reservoir in Cornwall, England, UK, just north of the village of Drift and west of Penzance. The reservoir is 1,200 yards long and covers 65 acres.
Carn Euny
Archaeological site
Carn Euny is an archaeological site near Sancreed, on the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It consists of evidence of both Iron Age and post-Iron Age settlement, with excavation on the site showing activity at Carn Euny as early as the Neolithic period.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sellan and Grumbla.
Sellan
Hamlet
Photo: Elizabeth Scott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sellan is a farm in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, not to be confused with the Beacon Estate. It lies just northeast of Sancreed.
Grumbla
Hamlet
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grumbla is a hamlet in the parish of Sancreed, Cornwall, England, UK.
Catchall
Hamlet
Photo: Michael Murray, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Catchall is a hamlet in the civil parish of Sancreed in west Cornwall, England, UK. Catchall is 1 mile south-east of Sancreed at around 310 feet above sea level at the junction of the B3283 with the A30 main road.
Sancreed
- Category: locality
- Location: Sancreed, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.10801° or 50° 6′ 29″ northLongitude
-5.60958° or 5° 36′ 35″ westPopulation
632Elevation
463 feet (141 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB SACOpen location code
9C2P495R+65OpenStreetMap ID
node 29170316OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Sancreed” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سنكريد”
- Basque: “Eglossankres”
- Basque: “Sancreed”
- Cebuano: “Sancreed”
- Chinese: “Sancreed”
- Cornish: “Eglossankres”
- Dutch: “Sancreed”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سنكريد”
- French: “Sancreed”
- German: “Sancreed”
- Irish: “Eglossankres”
- Italian: “Sancreed”
- Ladin: “Sancreed”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sancreed”
- Persian: “سنکرید”
- Polish: “Sancreed”
- Swedish: “Sancreed”
- Turkish: “Sancreed”
- Ukrainian: “Сенкрід”
- Welsh: “Eglossankres”
- Welsh: “Sancreed”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sancreed Parish Church and Sancreed Village Hall.
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