Portscatho
Portscatho is a coastal village on the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village adjoins Gerrans on the east side of the peninsula, about seven miles south-southeast of Truro.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nigel Homer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 1,500 residents
- Description: village in Cornwall, England, UK
- Also known as: “Portscatho, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Gerrans and Towan Beach.
Killigerran Head
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Killigerran Head is a scenic viewpoint, which is situated 2 miles south of Portscatho.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gerrans and Rosevine.
Gerrans
Village
Photo: Tim Green, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Rosevine
Hamlet
Photo: Fred James, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rosevine is a farm in the parish of Gerrans in Cornwall, England.
Trewithian
Village
Photo: Fred James, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Trewithian is a hamlet near Portscatho in Cornwall, England. Trewithian lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Portscatho
- Category: locality
- Location: Gerrans, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.17974° or 50° 10′ 47″ northLongitude
-4.97565° or 4° 58′ 32″ westPopulation
1,500United Nations Location Code
GB PSCOpen location code
9C2Q52HF+VPOpenStreetMap ID
node 29285392OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2640044Wikidata ID
Q7232404
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Portscatho” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Portscatho”
- Cebuano: “Portscatho”
- Cornish: “Porthskathow”
- Dutch: “Portscatho”
- French: “Portscatho”
- Irish: “Portscatho”
- Italian: “Portscatho”
- Persian: “پورتسکتو”
- Polish: “Portscatho”
- Swedish: “Portscatho”
- Welsh: “Porthskathow”
- Welsh: “Portscatho”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Portscatho Post Office and New Gallery.
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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 “Portscatho”. Photo: Nigel Homer, CC BY-SA 2.0.