Porkellis
Porkellis is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is approximately three and a half miles north-east of Helston, and is in the heart of the old Wendron mining district.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Cornwall, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Porkellis, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Christopher Church and Community Centre and Poldark Mine.
Poldark Mine
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Poldark Mine is a tourist attraction near the town of Helston in Cornwall, England, UK. It lies within the Wendron Mining District of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site.
Stithians Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stithians Reservoir is a reservoir situated just under a mile to the west of the village of Stithians, Cornwall, England, UK. Stithians Reservoir is situated 2 miles northeast of Porkellis.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Boswin and Lezerea.
Boswin
Locality
Boswin is a hamlet in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, situated in a former mining area south of Redruth. According to the Post Office the population of the hamlet was included in the civil parish of Wendron…
Lezerea
Hamlet
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lezerea is a farmstead near Wendron in Cornwall, England, UK. Lezerea is in the civil parish of Wendron, situated approximately 7 miles west of Falmouth.
Halwin
Hamlet
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Halwin is a hamlet in Cornwall, England which adjoins Porkellis and is northeast of Wendron.
Porkellis
- Category: locality
- Location: Wendron, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.15556° or 50° 9′ 20″ northLongitude
-5.23181° or 5° 13′ 55″ westElevation
512 feet (156 metres)Open location code
9C2P5Q49+67OpenStreetMap ID
node 29285914OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Porkellis” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بركليس”
- Basque: “Porkellis”
- Cornish: “Porthkellys”
- Dutch: “Porkellis”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بركليس”
- French: “Porkellis”
- Irish: “Porkellis”
- Welsh: “Porkellis”
- Welsh: “Porthkellys”
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Highlights include Halwin School and Boquio.
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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 “Porkellis”. Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.