Porthcurno
Porthcurno is a small village covering a small valley and beach on the south coast of Cornwall, England in the United Kingdom. It is the main settlement in a civil and an ecclesiastical parish, both named St Levan, which comprise Porthcurno, diminutive St Levan itself, Trethewey and Treen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Cyr, CC BY-SA 2.0 uk.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Cornwall, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Porthcurno Bay”, “Porthcurno, Cornwall”, and “Porthcurnow”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Minack Theatre and St Levan’s Church, St Levan.
Minack Theatre
Garden
Photo: Chef, Public domain.
The Minack Theatre is an open-air theatre, constructed above a gully with a rocky granite outcrop jutting into the sea. The theatre is at Porthcurno, four miles from Land's End in Cornwall, England.
St Levan’s Church, St Levan
Church
Photo: JimChampion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Levan Church, St Levan is a parish church in the Church of England located in St Levan, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Until 1864 the church was a chapelry of the Royal Peculiar of the Deanery of St Buryan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Treen and Polgigga.
Treen
Village
Photo: SMJ, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Treen is a small village in the parish of St Levan, in the far west of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is about 3 miles inland from Land's End on a short unclassified spur road from the B3315.
Polgigga
Locality
Photo: Hugh Venables, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Polgigga is a hamlet in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, on the B3315 Land's End to Penzance road and within the civil parish of St Levan. Polgigga is 8 miles west of Penzance and 2 miles east of Land's End.
Bottoms
Hamlet
Bottoms is a hamlet in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is located within the civil parish of St Levan, 5 miles south-west of the town of Penzance. The hamlet of Trebehor lies further west. It contains St Levan CP School, St Levan's community primary school.
Porthcurno
- Category: locality
- Location: St Levan, West Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.04765° or 50° 2′ 52″ northLongitude
-5.65698° or 5° 39′ 25″ westElevation
230 feet (70 metres)Open location code
9C2P28XV+36OpenStreetMap ID
node 29169816OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Porthcurno” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “برثكورنو”
- Armenian: “Պորտկուրնո”
- Basque: “Porthcurno”
- Breton: “Porthkornow”
- Cornish: “Porthkornow”
- Dutch: “Porthcurno”
- Egyptian Arabic: “برثكورنو”
- French: “Porthcurno”
- German: “Porthcurno”
- Hebrew: “פורטקורנו”
- Irish: “Porthcurno”
- Italian: “Porthcurno”
- Japanese: “ポースカーノ”
- Korean: “포츠쿠르노”
- Persian: “پورتکورنو”
- Polish: “Porthcurno”
- Swedish: “Porthcurno”
- Ukrainian: “Порткурно”
- Welsh: “Porthcurno”
- Welsh: “Porthkornow”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include WW2 Reservoir for Underground Cable Station and WW2 Category A Defended Locality Porthcurno Cable Station.
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