Kenidjack Castle
Kenidjack Castle is a castle in St Just in Penwith, West Cornwall, England. Kenidjack Castle is situated nearby to the locality Kenidjack Valley, as well as near the ruins Cape Cornwall Chimney.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Castle
- Description: hillfort in St Just, Cornwall, England, UK
- Also known as: “Kemijack” and “Promontory fort called Kenidjack Castle”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Botallack Mine and Ballowall Barrow.
Botallack Mine
Photo: Kevin Walsh, CC BY 2.0.
The Botallack Mine is a former mine in Botallack in the west of Cornwall, UK. Since 2006 it has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site – Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape. Botallack Mine is situated 4,000 feet northeast of Kenidjack Castle.
Ballowall Barrow
Archaeological site
Photo: Frances Watts, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ballowall Barrow is a prehistoric funerary cairn which Ashbee and Hencken state contains several phases of use from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. It is situated on the cliff top at Ballowall Common, near St Just in Cornwall, England, UK. Ballowall Barrow is situated 1 mile south of Kenidjack Castle.
Cape Cornwall Chimney
Ruins
Photo: Hanton01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cape Cornwall Chimney is a ruins, which is situated 3,000 feet southwest of Kenidjack Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kenidjack Valley and Boscean.
Kenidjack Valley
Locality
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kenidjack Valley, sometimes referred to as Nancherrow Valley, is a steep-sided valley in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The Tregeseal River flows down the valley and discharges into the Atlantic a few hundred yards north of Cape Cornwall, half-a-mile north-east of the village of St Just.
Boscean
Hamlet
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boscean is a hamlet in the civil parish of St Just, on the Penwith peninsula in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, approximately half-a-mile northwest of St Just.
Botallack
Hamlet
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Botallack is a village in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies along the B3306 road which connects St Ives in the east to the A30 road, near Land's End.
Kenidjack Castle
- Categories: promontory fort, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: St Just in Penwith, West Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Kenidjack Castle” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Kemijack”
- Swedish: “Kemijack”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Carnyorth and Tregeseal.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Bosorne and Tregiffian.
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