Brown Willy
Brown Willy is a hill in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The summit, at 1,378 feet above sea level, is the highest point of Bodmin Moor and of Cornwall as a whole.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: StephenDawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rough Tor and Fernacre.
Rough Tor
Peak
Rough Tor, or Roughtor, is a tor on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The site comprises the tor summit and logan stone, a Neolithic tor enclosure, many Bronze Age hut circles, and some contemporary monuments.
Fernacre
Archaeological site
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fernacre, also known as Fernacre stone circle or Fernacre circle, is a stone circle located on the slopes of the De Lank River, 1.25 miles northeast of St Breward on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall in the United Kingdom.
Showery Tor
Peak
Showery Tor is a rocky outcrop on a ridge-top approximately 0.6 kilometres north of the Rough Tor summit, near Camelford on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. It is notable for its rock formations and prehistoric monuments.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bowithick and Bolventor.
Bowithick
Hamlet
Photo: Mark Camp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bowithick is a hamlet on the northern edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Bowithick is situated near the disused Davidstow Moor airfield.
Bolventor
Hamlet
Photo: Stewart MacInnes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bolventor is a hamlet on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated in Altarnun civil parish between Launceston and Bodmin.
South Carne
Hamlet
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
South Carne is a hamlet west of Altarnun in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Brown Willy
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,378 feet
- Description: hill in Cornwall, England
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: St Breward, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.5906° or 50° 35′ 26″ northLongitude
-4.60269° or 4° 36′ 10″ westElevation
1,378 feet (420 metres)Open location code
9C2QH9RW+6WOpenStreetMap ID
node 762003017OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Brown Willy” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “براون ويلي”
- Basque: “Brown Willy”
- Breton: “Bronn Wennili”
- Cebuano: “Brown Willy”
- Cornish: “Bronn Wenneli”
- Cornish: “Bronn Wennili”
- Dutch: “Brown Willy”
- French: “Brown Willy”
- German: “Brown Willy”
- Latin: “Brown Willy”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brown Willy”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brown Willy”
- Norwegian: “Brown Willy”
- Polish: “Brown Willy”
- Russian: “Браун Вилли”
- Russian: “Браун-Уилли”
- Swedish: “Brown Willy”
- Welsh: “Bron Wennyly”
- Welsh: “Bronn Wenneli”
- Welsh: “Bronn Wennili”
- Welsh: “Brown Willy”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Slades and Louden Hill.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Brown Willy Downs and Maiden Tor.
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