St Mawes
St Mawes is a village on the end of the Roseland Peninsula, in the eastern side of Falmouth harbour, on the south coast of Cornwall, England. The village, formerly two separate hamlets, lies on the east bank of the Carrick Roads, a large waterway created after the Ice Age from an ancient valley which flooded as the melt waters caused the sea level to rise.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village in Cornwall, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Lannvowsedh” and “St. Mawes”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Victory Inn and St Mawes’ Church, St Mawes.
St Mawes’ Church, St Mawes
Church
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St Mawes’ Church is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Truro in St Mawes, Cornwall, England, UK.
St Mawes Castle
Castle
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St Mawes Castle is an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII near Falmouth, Cornwall, between 1540 and 1542. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, and defended the Carrick Roads waterway at the mouth of the River Fal.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Percuil and Bohortha.
Percuil
Hamlet
Photo: ROWLAND TURNER, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Percuil is a hamlet in Roseland, Cornwall, England. Percuil is on the east bank of the Percuil River and south-west of Gerrans.
Bohortha
Village
Photo: Geoff Pick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bohortha is a coastal village in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated on the east side of the Roseland Peninsula two miles south of Portscatho.
Gerrans
Village
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Gerrans is a coastal civil parish and village on the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village adjoins Portscatho on the east side of the peninsula. Gerrans is situated 2 miles northeast of St Mawes.
St Mawes
- Category: locality
- Location: St Just in Roseland, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.15861° or 50° 9′ 31″ northLongitude
-5.01483° or 5° 0′ 53″ westElevation
30 feet (9 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB SMVOpen location code
9C2P5X5P+C3OpenStreetMap ID
node 29285389OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2638728Wikidata ID
Q993884
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“St Mawes” goes by many names.
- Basque: “St Mawes”
- Breton: “Lannvowsedh”
- Burmese: “စိန့်မော”
- Cebuano: “St Mawes”
- Cornish: “Lannvowsedh”
- Dutch: “St Mawes”
- French: “St Mawes”
- German: “St Mawes”
- Irish: “Lannvowsedh”
- Irish: “St Mawes”
- Italian: “Saint Mawes”
- Italian: “St Mawes”
- Latin: “St Mawes”
- Persian: “سنت ماوس”
- Polish: “St Mawes”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Lannvowsedh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “St Mawes”
- South Azerbaijani: “سنت ماوس”
- Spanish: “St Mawes”
- Swedish: “St Mawes”
- Welsh: “Lannvowsedh”
- Welsh: “St Mawes”
- “St Mawes”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as St Mawes Harbour and Halwartha.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Mawes Gallery and St Mawes Post Office.
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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 Wikipedia page “St Mawes”. Photo: EvaK, CC BY-SA 2.5.