Cornwall
West Cornwall
St Buryan

Lamorna

Lamorna is a village, valley and cove in west , England, UK. It is on the Penwith peninsula approximately 4 miles south of . 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".
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Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Village
  • Description: village in the parish of St Buryan, Cornwall
  • Also known as: “Lamorna Cove” and “Lamorna, Cornwall”

Places of Interest

Highlights include The Pipers and Tater Du Lighthouse.

Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
are a pair of standing stones near stone circle located 2 miles to the south of the village of , in , .

Lighthouse
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is '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.

Archaeological site
Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a Neolithic or early Bronze Age chambered cairn. It is near Lamorna in west , . It is a rare form of a passage grave, known as an Entrance grave.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Castallack and Raginnis.

Hamlet
Photo: Alan Simkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet in the civil parish of St Buryan, Lamorna and Paul in west , England, UK. It is on a minor road between and Lamorna.

Hamlet
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet near in west , England, United Kingdom.

Hamlet
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet in , England, situated near the village of . is situated 1½ miles north of Lamorna.

Lamorna

Latitude
50.06508° or 50° 3′ 54″ north
Longitude
-5.56789° or 5° 34′ 4″ west
Elevation
161 feet (49 metres)
Open location code
9C2P3C8J+2R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 683892850
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6621658
Wiki­data ID
Q827975
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Lamorna” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لمرنا”
  • Basque: “Lamorna”
  • Cornish: “Nansmornow”
  • Dutch: “Lamorna”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لمرنا”
  • French: “Lamorna”
  • German: “Lamorna”
  • Irish: “Lamorna”
  • Italian: “Lamorna”
  • Persian: “لامورنا”
  • Polish: “Lamorna”
  • Russian: “Ламорна”
  • Welsh: “Lamorna”
  • Welsh: “Nansmornow”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Lamorna Village Hall and Chygurno.

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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 “Lamorna”. Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.