Lamorna
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".
- Village
- …lies at an elevation of around 160 feet (50 metres)
- Description: village in the parish of St Buryan, Lamorna and Paul, Cornwall
- Also known as“Lamorna Cove”“Lamorna, Cornwall”“Nansmornow”
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Lamorna
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Latitude
50.06508° or 50° 3′ 54″ north
Longitude
-5.56788° or 5° 34′ 4″ west
Open location code
9C2P3C8J+2R
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lamorna” goes by many names.
لمرناArabic
LamornaBasque
NansmornowBreton
NansmornowCornish
LamornaDutch
لمرناEgyptian Arabic
ЛаморнаRussian
NansmornowScottish Gaelic
LamornaWelsh
NansmornowWelsh
Lamorna - Nansmornow
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