Porthcurno

Porthcurno is a small village covering a small valley and beach on the south coast of , England in the United Kingdom. It is the main settlement in a civil and an ecclesiastical parish, both named , which comprise Porthcurno, diminutive St Levan itself, and Treen.
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: village in Cornwall, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Porthcurno Bay”, “Porthcurno, Cornwall”, “Porthcurnow”, and “Porthkornow”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Minack Theatre and St Levan’s Church, St Levan.

Garden
Photo: Chef, Public domain.
The 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 in , England.

Church
Photo: JimChampion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Levan Church, St Levan is a parish church in the located in , , United Kingdom. Until 1864 the church was a chapelry of the Royal Peculiar of the Deanery of .

Beach
Photo: Susan Tromans, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Treen and Polgigga.

Village
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is a small village in the parish of , in the far west of , England, United Kingdom. It is about 3 miles inland from on a short unclassified spur road from the B3315.

Locality
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is a hamlet in west , England, United Kingdom, on the B3315 to road and within the civil parish of . is 8 miles west of Penzance and 2 miles east of Land's End.

Hamlet
is a hamlet in west , England, . It is located within the civil parish of , 5 miles south-west of the town of . The hamlet of Trebehor lies further west. It contains St Levan CP School, St Levan's community .

Porthcurno

Latitude
50.04765° or 50° 2′ 52″ north
Longitude
-5.65698° or 5° 39′ 25″ west
Elevation
230 feet (70 metres)
Open location code
9C2P28XV+36
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29169816
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2640052
Wiki­data ID
Q847176
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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: “Porthkornow”
  • Italian: “Porthcurno”
  • Japanese: “ポースカーノ”
  • Korean: “포츠쿠르노”
  • Manx: “Porthkornow”
  • Persian: “پورتکورنو”
  • Polish: “Porthcurno”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Porthkornow”
  • Swedish: “Porthcurno”
  • Ukrainian: “Порткурно”
  • Urdu: “پورتھ کورنو”
  • Welsh: “Porthcurno”
  • Welsh: “Porthkornow”
  • “Porthcurno”
  • “Porthcurno - Porthkornow”
  • “Porthkornow”

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Highlights include WW2 Reservoir for Underground Cable Station and WW2 Category A Defended Locality Porthcurno Cable Station.

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