Boleigh
Boleigh is a hamlet southeast of St Buryan in west Cornwall, England, UK. The Newlyn School artist, Samuel Birch, later known as Lamorna Birch came to Cornwall in 1892, initially staying at Boleigh Farm.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Residential area
- Description: village in Cornwall, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Boleigh, Cornwall”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include The Pipers and Tregiffian Burial Chamber.
The Pipers
Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Pipers are a pair of standing stones near The Merry Maidens stone circle located 2 miles to the south of the village of St Buryan, in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The Pipers is situated 380 feet southwest of Boleigh.
Tregiffian Burial Chamber
Archaeological site
Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Tregiffian Burial Chamber is a Neolithic or early Bronze Age chambered cairn. It is near Lamorna in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is a rare form of a passage grave, known as an Entrance grave. Tregiffian Burial Chamber is situated 2,500 feet southwest of Boleigh.
Tater Du Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tater Du Lighthouse is Cornwall's most recently built lighthouse. The construction of the lighthouse came out of the tragedy of losing a small Spanish coaster called the Juan Ferrer on 23 October 1963, on the nearby Boscawen Point, the vessel capsized with the loss of 11 lives. Tater Du Lighthouse is situated 1¼ miles south of Boleigh.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lamorna and Castallack.
Lamorna
Village
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lamorna is a village, valley and cove in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on the Penwith peninsula approximately 4 miles south of Penzance. Lamorna became popular with the artists of the Newlyn School, including Alfred Munnings, Laura Knight and Harold Knight, and is also known for former residents Derek and Jean Tangye who farmed land and wrote "The Minack Chronicles".
Castallack
Hamlet
Photo: Alan Simkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Castallack is a hamlet in the civil parish of St Buryan, Lamorna and Paul in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on a minor road between Sheffied and Lamorna.
St Loy’s Cove
Locality
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Loy's Cove is a small wooded valley and beach in the civil parish of St Buryan in Cornwall, England, UK. It is located two miles to the south of St Buryan churchtown, and between Penberth and Lamorna.
Boleigh
- Category: village
- Location: St Buryan, West Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.06874° or 50° 4′ 8″ northLongitude
-5.58385° or 5° 35′ 2″ westElevation
295 feet (90 metres)Open location code
9C2P3C98+FFOpenStreetMap ID
way 289224788OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residential
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Boleigh” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بولي”
- Basque: “Boleigh”
- Cornish: “Boslegh”
- Dutch: “Boleigh”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بولى”
- French: “Boleigh”
- Irish: “Boleigh”
- Welsh: “Boleigh”
- Welsh: “Boslegh”
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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 “Boleigh”. Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.