Lavernock
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ben Salter, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Larnog”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lavernock Battery and Glamorganshire Golf Club.
Lavernock Battery
Fort
Photo: Celuici, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lavernock Battery was built at Lavernock Point, Wales on the recommendations of the 1860 Royal Commission during the late 1860s to protect the ports of the Severn Estuary.
Glamorganshire Golf Club
Golf course
Glamorganshire Golf Club is located in Lower Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, 7.3 miles south west from the capital city of Cardiff and is one of the oldest golf clubs in Wales.
Sully Island
Island
Photo: ben salter, CC BY 2.0.
Sully Island is a small tidal island of 14.5 acres by the hamlet of Swanbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It is located 400 m off the northern coast of the Bristol Channel, midway between the towns of Penarth and Barry and 10 km south of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cog and Penarth.
Penarth
Photo: Ruth Sharville, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Penarth is a Victorian sea-side town 3 miles southwest of Cardiff in Wales. It has impressive Victorian architecture and known for its pier and extensive parks.
Palmerstown
Suburb
Palmerstown is a south-eastern suburb of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan south-west of Dinas Powys and 7 miles south-west of Cardiff in Wales. It is immediately north of chemical and plastics industries such as Dow Chemicals, and Barry No.2 dock and the Atlantic Trading Estate lie south-east of No.2 dock. Palmerstown is situated 3 miles west of Lavernock.
Lavernock
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.40706° or 51° 24′ 25″ northLongitude
-3.17139° or 3° 10′ 17″ westElevation
102 feet (31 metres)Open location code
9C3RCR4H+RCOpenStreetMap ID
node 8359044492OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Lavernock” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Lavernock”
- Breton: “Lavernog”
- Catalan: “Larnog”
- Dutch: “Lavernock”
- French: “Lavernock”
- German: “Lavernock”
- Irish: “Larnog”
- Japanese: “ラバーノック岬”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lavernock”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lavernock Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lavernock”
- Norwegian: “Lavernock”
- Persian: “لورنوک”
- Welsh: “Larnog”
- Welsh: “Lavernock”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Cosmeston and Swanbridge.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Lawrence Church and Marconi Holiday Village.
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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 “Lavernock”. Photo: Ben Salter, CC BY 2.0.