Castallack
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Alan Simkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Cornwall
- Also known as: “Castallack, Cornwall” and “Kastellek”
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. Tater Du Lighthouse is situated 1½ miles southwest of Castallack.
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 Lamorna and Raginnis.
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".
Raginnis
Hamlet
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Raginnis is a hamlet near Mousehole in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Sheffield
Hamlet
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sheffield is a hamlet in Cornwall, England, situated near the village of Paul.
Castallack
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Paul, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.07284° or 50° 4′ 22″ northLongitude
-5.56254° or 5° 33′ 45″ westElevation
328 feet (100 metres)Open location code
9C2P3CFP+4XOpenStreetMap ID
node 690897745OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Castallack” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Castallack”
- Cornish: “Kastellek”
- Dutch: “Castallack”
- French: “Castallack”
- Irish: “Castallack”
- Welsh: “Castallack”
- Welsh: “Kastellek”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include WW2 Starfish Bombing Decoy for Penzance (site of) and Lamorna Village Hall.
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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 “Castallack”. Photo: Alan Simkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.