Morvah
Morvah is a civil parish and village on the Penwith peninsula in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish has a population of 49.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tim, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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- Type: Village with 75 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK
- Also known as: “Morvah, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Bridget’s Church and Chûn Castle.
St Bridget’s Church
Church
Photo: Andrewrabbott, Public domain.
St Bridget's Church, Morvah is a parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Truro located in Morvah, Cornwall, UK. It was licensed for divine service by the Bishop of Exeter on 22 September 1400.
Chûn Castle
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chûn Castle is a large Iron Age hillfort near Penzance in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The fort was built about 2,500 years ago, and fell into disuse until the early centuries AD when it was possibly re-occupied to protect the nearby tin mines.
Chûn Quoit
Archaeological site
Photo: Jim Champion (treehouse1977), CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chûn Quoit is one of the best preserved of all Neolithic quoits in western Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Chûn Quoit is located in open moorland near Pendeen and Morvah.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Trevowhan and Bojewyan.
Trevowhan
Hamlet
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Trevowhan is a hamlet in the parish of Morvah, Cornwall, England, UK, and lies 0.5 miles east of the village of Morvah. A terrace of a house and two cottages in the hamlet is a Grade II listed building.
Bojewyan
Village
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bojewyan is a settlement on the Penwith Peninsula in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village lies along the B3306 road which runs along the north coast and connects St Ives to St Just.
Rosemergy
Hamlet
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rosemergy is a hamlet near Morvah in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom on the B3306 road between St Ives and St Just.
Morvah
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Morvah, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.16153° or 50° 9′ 42″ northLongitude
-5.63859° or 5° 38′ 19″ westPopulation
75Elevation
390 feet (119 metres)Open location code
9C2P5966+JHOpenStreetMap ID
node 29170982OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2642161Wikidata ID
Q305008
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Morvah” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مروه”
- Basque: “Morvah”
- Bulgarian: “Морвах”
- Cebuano: “Morvah”
- Chinese: “Morvah”
- Cornish: “Morvedh”
- Dutch: “Morvah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مروه”
- French: “Morvah”
- German: “Morvah”
- Irish: “Morvah”
- Italian: “Morvah”
- Ladin: “Morvah”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Morvah”
- Persian: “موروا، کورنوال”
- Polish: “Morvah”
- Swedish: “Morvah”
- Turkish: “Morvah”
- Welsh: “Morvah”
- Welsh: “Morvedh”
- “Morvah”
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