Morwenstow
Morwenstow is a civil parish in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish abuts the west coast, about six miles north of Bude and within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 891 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK
- Also known as: “Moorwinstow” and “Morwenstow, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Morwenna and St John the Baptist, Morwenstow and Rectory Farmhouse.
Church of St Morwenna and St John the Baptist, Morwenstow
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Morwenna and St John the Baptist is the parish church of Morwenstow, north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, the most northerly parish in Cornwall.
Hawker’s Hut
Shelter
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hawker's Hut is an historic hut at Morwenstow, Cornwall originally built by the eccentric clergyman, poet and antiquarian, Robert Stephen Hawker, close to Higher Sharpnose Point.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Woodford and Gooseham.
Woodford
Hamlet
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Woodford is a hamlet in northeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is located southeast of Morwenstow, northwest of Kilkhampton and north of Flexbury.
Gooseham
Hamlet
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gooseham is a hamlet in northeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated six miles north of Bude and is approximately one kilometre south of the border with Devon. Gooseham is situated 1½ miles northeast of Morwenstow.
Coombe
Hamlet
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coombe is a hamlet in northeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Combe is situated in the civil parish of Morwenstow three miles north of Bude. Most houses in the settlement are owned by the Landmark Trust. Coombe is situated 2 miles south of Morwenstow.
Morwenstow
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Morwenstow, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.909° or 50° 54′ 32″ northLongitude
-4.55225° or 4° 33′ 8″ westPopulation
891Elevation
449 feet (137 metres)Open location code
9C2QWC5X+J4OpenStreetMap ID
node 1758201377OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2642152Wikidata ID
Q1856949
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Morwenstow” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Morwenstow”
- Cebuano: “Morwenstow”
- Cornish: “Pluw Vorwenn”
- Dutch: “Morwenstow”
- French: “Morwenstow”
- German: “Morwenstow”
- Irish: “Morwenstow”
- Italian: “Morwenstow”
- Ladin: “Morwenstow”
- Polish: “Morwenstow”
- Swedish: “Morwenstow”
- Turkish: “Morwenstow”
- Welsh: “Morwenstow”
- Welsh: “Pluw Vorwenn”
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Highlights include St. John’s Well and Vicarage Wood.
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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 “Morwenstow”. Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.