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".

Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Type: Village
Description: village in the parish of St Buryan, Lamorna and Paul, Cornwall
Also known as: “Lamorna Cove”, “Lamorna, Cornwall”, and “Nansmornow”

Places of Interest

Highlights include The Pipers and Tater Du Lighthouse.

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.

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.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Castallack and Raginnis.

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.