Penarth Head
Penarth Head is a headland in Penarth on the south coast of South Wales near the Welsh capital city of Cardiff. St Augustine's Church sits on the highest point of the Head and has been used as a landmark to aid navigation for seafarers for centuries.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include St Augustine’s Church and Penarth railway station.
St Augustine’s Church
Church
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St Augustine's Church is a Grade I-listed Gothic Revival nineteenth-century parish church in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
Penarth railway station
Railway station
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Penarth railway station is the railway station serving the town of Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. It is the terminus of Network Rail's Penarth branch running from Cogan Junction to Penarth station, 1 mile 12 chains from the junction and 2 miles 67 chains south of Cardiff Central station.
Penarth Marina
Marina
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Penarth Marina is both a marina for boats, located in the old Penarth Docks, Wales and also the name generally used to describe the surrounding area of modern housing.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cardiff Bay and Grangetown.
Cardiff Bay
Suburb
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Cardiff Bay is an area and freshwater lake in Cardiff, Wales. The site of a former tidal bay and estuary, it is the river mouth of the River Taff and Ely.
Grangetown
Suburb
Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grangetown is a district and community in the south of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It is one of the largest districts in the south of the city and is bordered by Riverside, Canton and Butetown.
Lavernock
Hamlet
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Lavernock is a hamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales, lying on the coast 7 miles south of Cardiff between Penarth and Sully, and overlooking the Bristol Channel.
Penarth Head
- Type: Cape
- Category: landform
- Location: Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.44152° or 51° 26′ 30″ northLongitude
-3.16507° or 3° 9′ 54″ westElevation
59 feet (18 metres)Open location code
9C3RCRRM+JXOpenStreetMap ID
node 11983629435OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Penarth Head” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Penarth Head”
- Italian: “Penarth Head”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Penarth Head”
- Swedish: “Penarth Head”
- Welsh: “Trwyn Penarth”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Penarth Marina and Cardiff International Sports Village.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Penarth Head Park and Pembroke Terrace Park.
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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 “Penarth Head”. Photo: BigDom, CC BY-SA 4.0.