Carn Brea

Carn Brea is a civil parish and hilltop site in , England, United Kingdom. The population of Carn Brea including Bosleake and Church Coombe was 8,013 at the 2011 census.
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  • Type: Locality with 9,370 residents
  • Description: civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Carn Brea civil parish”, “Carn Brea CP”, and “Carn Brea, Redruth”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kresen Kernow and Redruth railway station.

Government office
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in , is Cornwall's archive centre, home to the world's biggest collection of archive and library material related to .

Railway station
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Redruth station serves the town of , , United Kingdom; it is situated on the Cornish Main Line between and . The station is 309 miles 68 chains down the line from the zero point at , measured via Box and Plymouth Millbay.

Hospital
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The is a National Health Service hospital in , England. It is managed by Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Redruth and Camborne.

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is a town in . The town also has a long history of tin mining and is the home of Rodda's, a dairy that is the largest producer of Cornish clotted cream.

Town
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is a town and civil parish in , England. At the 2021 census the population of the parish was 23,831 and the population of the built-up area was 20,450.

Village
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is a village in west , England, United Kingdom approximately 3 miles south of at grid reference SW 689 386 in the civil parish of Carn Brea.

Carn Brea

Latitude
50.2167° or 50° 13′ north
Longitude
-5.2566° or 5° 15′ 24″ west
Population
9,370
Elevation
581 feet (177 metres)
Open location code
9C2P6P8V+M9
Geo­Names ID
7293066
Wiki­data ID
Q5043749
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Welsh—“Carn Brea” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “কার্ন ব্রিঅ”
  • Catalan: “Karn Bre”
  • Cebuano: “Carn Brea (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Carn Brea”
  • Chinese: “卡恩布里亚”
  • Chinese: “卡恩布里亞”
  • Cornish: “Karn Bre”
  • Cornish: “Karnbre”
  • Cornish: “Pluw Garnbre”
  • French: “Carn Brea”
  • German: “Carn Brea”
  • Gujarati: “કાર્ન બ્રી”
  • Irish: “Carn Brea”
  • Japanese: “ケーン・ブレア”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾರ್ನ್ ಬ್ರಿಯಾ”
  • Korean: “칸 브리어”
  • Lithuanian: “Čarn Brea”
  • Polish: “Carn Brea”
  • Portuguese: “Carn Brea”
  • Russian: “Карн-Бри”
  • Spanish: “Carn Brea”
  • Swedish: “Carn Brea (distrikt)”
  • Swedish: “Carn Brea”
  • Tamil: “கார்ன் பிரீ”
  • Telugu: “కార్న్ బ్రియా”
  • Turkish: “Carn Brea, Redruth”
  • Urdu: “کارن بریا، ریڈ رتھ”
  • Urdu: “کارن برے”
  • Welsh: “Carn Brea”
  • Welsh: “Pluw Garnbre”
  • Welsh: “Plwyf Garnbre”

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