Tresco
Tresco is the second-biggest island of the Isles of Scilly. It is 297 ha in area, measuring about 3.5 km by 1.75 km.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Locality with 180 residents
- Description: island in the Isles of Scilly
- Also known as: “Tresco, Isles of Scilly”
- Postal code: TR21
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tresco Abbey Gardens and St. Nicholas Priory Ruins.
Tresco Abbey Gardens
Garden
Photo: Andrewrabbott, Public domain.
Tresco Abbey Gardens are located on the island of Tresco in the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. The 17-acre gardens were established by the nineteenth-century proprietor of the islands, Augustus Smith, originally as a private garden within the grounds of the home he designed and built.
St. Nicholas Priory Ruins
Photo: Lambert, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tresco Priory is a former monastic settlement on Tresco, Isles of Scilly founded in 946 AD. It was re-founded as the Priory of St Nicholas by monks from Tavistock Abbey in 1114.
Valhalla Museum
Museum
Photo: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tresco Abbey Gardens are located on the island of Tresco in the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. The 17-acre gardens were established by the nineteenth-century proprietor of the islands, Augustus Smith, originally as a private garden within the grounds of the home he designed and built.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include New Grimsby and Old Grimsby.
New Grimsby
Village
Photo: Andrewrabbott, CC BY-SA 3.0.
New Grimsby is a coastal settlement on the island of Tresco in the Isles of Scilly, England. It is located on the west side of the island and there is a quay, as well as a public house, The New Inn, and a small art gallery.
Old Grimsby
Village
Photo: David Lally, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Old Grimsby is a coastal settlement on the island of Tresco in the Isles of Scilly, England. It is located on the east side of the island and there is a quay.
Piper’s Hole
Locality
Photo: Simon Leatherdale, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Piper's Hole is a sea cave located on Tresco, an island of the Isles of Scilly. The name Piper's Hole can also refer to another, more minor, sea cave in the Isles of Scilly, located on Penninis Head, St Mary's.
Tresco
- Category: island
- Location: Tresco, Isles of Scilly, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Tresco” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تريسكو”
- Armenian: “Տրեսկո”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Трэска”
- Belarusian: “Трэска”
- Breton: “Ynys Skaw”
- Catalan: “Tresco”
- Cebuano: “Tresco”
- Chinese: “Tresco”
- Chinese: “特雷斯科岛”
- Cornish: “Ynys Skaw”
- Czech: “Enys Skaw”
- Czech: “Tresco”
- Dutch: “Tresco”
- Finnish: “Tresco”
- French: “Tresco”
- Galician: “Tresco”
- German: “Tresco”
- Italian: “Tresco”
- Japanese: “トレスコ島”
- Macedonian: “Треско (остров)”
- Macedonian: “Треско”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tresco (Cornwall)”
- Northern Frisian: “Tresco”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tresco”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tresco”
- Norwegian: “Tresco”
- Polish: “Tresco”
- Russian: “Треско”
- Swedish: “Tresco”
- Turkish: “Tresco, Scilly Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Треско”
- Welsh: “Tresco”
- “Tresco”
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