Pendennis Castle
Pendennis Castle is an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII near Falmouth, Cornwall, England between 1540 and 1542. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, and defended the Carrick Roads waterway at the mouth of the River Fal.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Darren Shilson, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Little Dennis Blockhouse, Pendennis Castle and Falmouth Docks Railway Station.
Little Dennis Blockhouse, Pendennis Castle
Castle
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Little Dennis Blockhouse, Pendennis Castle is situated 1,600 feet southeast of Pendennis Castle.
Falmouth Docks Railway Station
Railway station
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Falmouth Docks railway station is situated in Falmouth, Cornwall, England. It was opened in 1863 as the terminus of the Maritime Line from Truro, although since 1970 Falmouth Town has been the principal station for the town. Falmouth Docks Railway Station is situated 2,400 feet northwest of Pendennis Castle.
National Maritime Museum Cornwall
Museum
Photo: Vernon39, Public domain.
The National Maritime Museum, Cornwall is located in a harbourside building at Falmouth in Cornwall, England. The building was designed by architect M. National Maritime Museum Cornwall is situated 3,800 feet northwest of Pendennis Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Flushing and St Mawes.
Flushing
Village
Flushing is a coastal village in the civil parish of Mylor, west Cornwall, UK. It is 3 miles east of Penryn and 10 miles south of Truro. It faces Falmouth across the Penryn River, an arm of the Carrick Roads. Flushing is situated 1½ miles northwest of Pendennis Castle.
St Mawes
Village
Photo: EvaK, CC BY-SA 2.5.
St Mawes is a village on the end of the Roseland Peninsula, in the eastern side of Falmouth harbour, on the south coast of Cornwall, England. The village, formerly two separate hamlets, lies on the east bank of the Carrick Roads, a large waterway created after the Ice Age from an ancient valley which flooded as the melt waters caused the sea level to rise. St Mawes is situated 1½ miles northeast of Pendennis Castle.
Mylor Churchtown
Village
Mylor Churchtown is a coastal village in Cornwall, England. It is the church town of the ecclesiastical parish of Mylor and is situated at the mouth of Mylor Creek, approximately three miles north of Falmouth. Mylor Churchtown is situated 2 miles north of Pendennis Castle.
Pendennis Castle
- Type: Castle
- Description: Device Fort on the west side of the estuary of the River Fal, near Falmouth in Cornwall, England, UK
- Categories: military museum, independent museum, fort, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Falmouth, South Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.14687° or 50° 8′ 49″ northLongitude
-5.04721° or 5° 2′ 50″ westElevation
167 feet (51 metres)Open location code
9C2P4XW3+P4OpenStreetMap ID
way 142798233OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castle
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Pendennis Castle” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قلعة بندينيس”
- Armenian: “Փենդենիս ամրոց”
- Basque: “Pendennis gaztelua”
- Chinese: “潘丹尼斯城堡”
- Cornish: “Kastel Penndinas”
- Cornish: “Kastell Penndinas”
- Danish: “Pendennis Castle”
- Dutch: “Pendennis Castle”
- French: “château de Pendennis”
- French: “Château de Pendennis”
- German: “Pendennis Castle”
- Irish: “Caisleán Pendennis”
- Irish: “Kastell Penndinas”
- Italian: “Castello di Pendennis”
- Italian: “Pendennis Castle”
- Japanese: “ペンデニス城”
- Portuguese: “Castelo Pendennis”
- Swedish: “Pendennis slott”
- Welsh: “Castell Pendennis”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Pendennis Point and Black Rock.
Nearby Places
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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 “Pendennis Castle”. Photo: Darren Shilson, CC BY 2.0.