Gunnislake
Gunnislake is a large village in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated in the Tamar Valley approximately ten miles north of Plymouth The first woman cabinet minister in the British Empire, Mary Ellen Smith, was born here in 1863.Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 4,040 residents
- Description: village in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Gunnislake, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gunnislake railway station and Hingston Down.
Gunnislake railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gunnislake railway station serves the village of Gunnislake in Cornwall, England. There are also connecting buses from here to the town of Tavistock. However the station is located in or nearer to the villages of Drakewalls and Albaston.
Hingston Down
Quarry
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hingston Down is a hill not far from Gunnislake in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is the subject of an old rhyme, due to the prolific tin mining that formerly took place in the area: Hingston Down well ywroughtIs worth London Town dearly bought.
Sylvia’s Meadow
Nature reserve
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sylvia's Meadow is a nature reserve and a Site of Special Scientific Interest owned and managed by Cornwall Wildlife Trust. It is a herb rich, 5-hectare site situated near Gunnislake, in East Cornwall, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Drakewalls and Albaston.
Drakewalls
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Copyrighted free use.
Drakewalls is a small village in southeast Cornwall, England, UK. It is in Calstock parish, adjacent to Gunnislake between Callington and Tavistock. Primary education is provided by Delaware Community Primary School.
Albaston
Hamlet
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Albaston is a hamlet in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in the civil parish of Calstock. It is located at Ordnance Survey grid reference SX 423 704.
St Ann’s Chapel
Village
St Ann's Chapel is a village in the parish of Calstock, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is west of Gunnislake on the A390 between Tavistock and Liskeard.
Gunnislake
- Category: locality
- Location: Calstock, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.52388° or 50° 31′ 26″ northLongitude
-4.21619° or 4° 12′ 58″ westPopulation
4,040Elevation
174 feet (53 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB GUMOpen location code
9C2QGQFM+HGOpenStreetMap ID
node 269208385OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Gunnislake” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غونيسلك”
- Basque: “Gunnislake”
- Bulgarian: “Гунислаке”
- Cebuano: “Gunnislake”
- Cornish: “Dowrgonna”
- Dutch: “Gunnislake”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جونيسلك”
- French: “Gunnislake”
- Irish: “Gunnislake”
- Persian: “گانیزلیک”
- Polish: “Gunnislake”
- Russian: “Ганнислейк”
- Spanish: “Gunnislake”
- Swedish: “Gunnislake”
- Welsh: “Dowrgonna”
- Welsh: “Gunnislake”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Gunnislake Crusade Fellowship Centre and Millennium Garden.
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