Polruan
Polruan is a coastal village in the parish of Lanteglos-by-Fowey in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is bounded on three sides by water: to the north by Pont Creek, to the west by the River Fowey and to the south by the English Channel and neighbouring village Bodinnick to the north, connected by a 4-mile walk along the hill tops.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 614 residents
- Description: village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Polruan, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Polruan Blockhouse and St Catherine’s Castle.
St Catherine’s Castle
Castle
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Catherine's Castle is a Henrician castle in Cornwall, England, built by Thomas Treffry between approximately 1538 and 1540, in response to fears of an invasion of England by France and the Holy Roman Empire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fowey and Bodinnick.
Fowey
Photo: Keven Law, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fowey is a small fishing town on the coast of South Cornwall, situated at the mouth of the river Fowey. It is set on the west side of a steep valley, so be prepared for much walking up and down.
Bodinnick
Hamlet
Photo: Crispin Purdye, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bodinnick is a riverside village in south-east Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. According to the Post Office the population of the 2011 Census was included in the civil parish of Lanteglos-by-Fowey.
Pont
Hamlet
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pont is a hamlet in Cornwall, England. Pont is about half a km north of Lanteglos-by-Fowey churchtown and east of Pont Pill. It is thought that Pont began as a settlement when the parish's first Celtic saint, St Wyllow, came and settled in a cave by the head of Pont around 596.
Polruan
- Category: locality
- Location: Lanteglos, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.3286° or 50° 19′ 43″ northLongitude
-4.63458° or 4° 38′ 5″ westPopulation
614Elevation
197 feet (60 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PLROpen location code
9C2Q89H8+C5OpenStreetMap ID
node 322059867OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Polruan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلروان”
- Basque: “Polruan”
- Chinese: “波尔鲁安”
- Chinese: “波爾魯安”
- Cornish: “Porthruwon”
- Dutch: “Polruan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلروان”
- French: “Polruan”
- German: “Polruan”
- Irish: “Polruan”
- Italian: “Polruan”
- Latin: “Polruan”
- Persian: “پلروان”
- Polish: “Polruan”
- Spanish: “Polruan”
- Swedish: “Polruan”
- Welsh: “Polruan”
- Welsh: “Porthruwon”
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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 “Polruan”. Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.