Bishop Rock
The Bishop Rock is a skerry off the British coast in the northern Atlantic Ocean known for its lighthouse. It is in the westernmost part of the Isles of Scilly, an archipelago 45 kilometres off the southwestern tip of the Cornish peninsula of Great Britain.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Knights, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: islet in the Atlantic Ocean, at the Isles of Scilly, England
- Also known as: “Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rosevear and Great Crebawethan.
Rosevear
Islet
Photo: Richard Knights, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rosevear is the largest of the group of rocks known as the Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly. The islands are on the eastern side of the Atlantic Ocean on the south-west approaches to the island of Great Britain and are renowned for the numerous shipwrecks in the area and the nearby Bishop Rock lighthouse. Rosevear is situated 2 miles east of Bishop Rock.
Great Crebawethan
Islet
Photo: Richard Knights, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Western Rocks are a group of uninhabited skerries and rocks in the south-western part of the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom, and are renowned for the numerous shipwrecks in the area and the nearby Bishop Rock lighthouse. Great Crebawethan is situated 1½ miles east of Bishop Rock.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Crim Rocks and Middle Town.
Crim Rocks
Locality
Photo: Robin Quine, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crim Rocks is a small group of uninhabited islands in the Isles of Scilly, England, United Kingdom. The Crim Rocks are the most westward of the archipelago's Western Rocks, therefore making them the westernmost point of England. Crim Rocks is situated 1½ miles north of Bishop Rock.
Middle Town
Hamlet
Middle Town is a small settlement on the island of St Agnes. It includes the island's primary school, post office and general store, and the old lighthouse. Middle Town is situated 4½ miles east of Bishop Rock.
Bartholomew Ledges Wreck
Locality
The Bartholomew Ledges Wreck is a wreck found in the late 1970s at St Marys Sound, Isles of Scilly is believed to be that of a mid-sixteenth to early seventeenth century armed cargo vessel. Bartholomew Ledges Wreck is situated 6 miles northeast of Bishop Rock.
Bishop Rock
- Category: landform
- Location: St Agnes, Isles of Scilly, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Bishop Rock” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Բիշոփ Ռոք”
- Cebuano: “Bishop Rock (pulo sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
- Cebuano: “Bishop Rock”
- Chinese: “主教岩”
- Chinese: “畢曉普巖”
- Cornish: “Men an Eskob”
- Danish: “Bishop Rock”
- Dutch: “Bishop Rock”
- French: “Bishop Rock”
- French: “Phare de Bishop Rock”
- German: “Bishop Rock”
- German: “Bishop’s Rock”
- German: “Men an Eskob”
- Italian: “Bishop Rock”
- Japanese: “ビショップ・ロック”
- Korean: “비숍 록”
- Latin: “Bishop Rock”
- Malayalam: “ബിഷപ്പ് പാറ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bishop Rock”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bishop Rock”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bishop’s Rock”
- Polish: “Bishop Rock”
- Portuguese: “Bishop Rock”
- Russian: “Bishop Rock”
- Russian: “Бишоп-Рок”
- Russian: “Бишоп”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Men an Eskob”
- Spanish: “Bishop rock”
- Spanish: “Bishop Rock”
- Swedish: “Bishop Rock”
- Ukrainian: “Бішоп”
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Highlights include Crebinicks and Little Crebawethan.
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Bishop Rock”. Photo: Richard Knights, CC BY-SA 2.0.