Looe railway station
Looe railway station serves the twin towns of East and West Looe, in Cornwall, England. The station is the terminus of the scenic Looe Valley Line 8+3⁄4 miles south of Liskeard. It faces out across the estuary of the River Looe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Looe, Cornwall, England, UK
- Also known as: “LOO” and “Looe Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Old Guildhall, Looe and St Nicholas’ Church, West Looe.
Old Guildhall, Looe
Museum
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Old Guildhall is a municipal building in Higher Market Street in Looe, Cornwall, England. The structure, which is currently used as a museum, is a Grade II* listed building. Old Guildhall, Looe is situated 2,500 feet south of Looe railway station.
St Nicholas’ Church, West Looe
Church
St Nicholas’ Church, West Looe is a Church of England parish church in Looe, Cornwall. St Nicholas’ Church, West Looe is situated 2,500 feet south of Looe railway station.
St Mary’s Church
Church
Photo: Andrewrabbott, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Mary's Church is a former Church of England parish church in Looe, Cornwall. St Mary’s Church is situated 2,700 feet south of Looe railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Looe and Plaidy.
Plaidy
Suburb
Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Plaidy is an eastern suburb of Looe, Cornwall, England, UK. Plaidy Beach is a sandy beach and Millendreath Beach is at its eastern end. The writer Eleanor Hibbert lived near Plaidy Beach during World War II and used it as the basis for one of her pen names, Jean Plaidy.
Millendreath
Locality
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Millendreath is a hamlet in the parish of St Martin-by-Looe, Cornwall, England, situated two miles east of the town of Looe. A station was to be built at Millendreath as part of the proposed St Germans & Looe Railway in the late 1930s, but the railway was abandoned without the station having been built.
Looe railway station
- Categories: dead-end railway station, station, and transportation
- Location: Looe, South Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.35956° or 50° 21′ 34″ northLongitude
-4.45639° or 4° 27′ 23″ westElevation
33 feet (10 metres)Operator
Great Western RailwayNetwork
National RailAbbreviation
“LOO”Open location code
9C2Q9G5V+RCOpenStreetMap ID
node 32039894OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=station
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In Other Languages
From Cornish to Polish—“Looe railway station” goes by many names.
- Cornish: “Gorsav Logh”
- Dutch: “Station Looe”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محطة لو”
- Finnish: “Looen rautatieasema”
- French: “gare de Looe”
- French: “Looe”
- German: “Bahnhof Looe”
- Italian: “Stazione di Looe”
- Polish: “Looe”
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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 “Looe railway station”. Photo: Andrewrabbott, CC BY-SA 4.0.