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Colan

Colan is a village and civil parish in mid-, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately three miles east of . The electoral ward is called Colan and Mawgan.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 2,890 residents
  • Description: hamlet and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Colan civil parish”, “Colan Civil Parish”, and “Colan, Cornwall”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Quintrell Downs railway station and Porth Reservoir.

Railway station
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serves the village of in , England. It is 300 miles 16 chains measured from the zero point at , on the Atlantic Coast Line.

Reservoir
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a in , , most of which is in the parish of Colan. The concrete dam was completed in 1960, and the lake has a net capacity of approximately 113,000,000 gallons.

Aerodrome
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Cornwall Airport Newquay is the main commercial airport for located at , 4 NM northeast of the town of on Cornwall's north coast.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St Columb Major and Newquay.

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is a town in . The designation Major distinguishes it from the smaller settlement and parish of St Columb Minor on the coast.

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is a town on the north coast in , England, United Kingdom. It is a civil parish, seaside resort, regional centre for aerospace industries with an airport and a spaceport, and a fishing port on the North Atlantic coast, approximately 12 miles north of and 20 miles west of .

Village
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , England, United Kingdom, close to , at the junction of the A392 and A3058 roads. It is named after the surrounding area of moorland.

Colan

Latitude
50.4125° or 50° 24′ 45″ north
Longitude
-5.0019° or 5° 0′ 7″ west
Population
2,890
Elevation
102 feet (31 metres)
Open location code
9C2PCX7X+27
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29289215
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
7294619
Wiki­data ID
Q736535
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Colan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كلان”
  • Basque: “Colan”
  • Basque: “Kolan (Kornualles)”
  • Bengali: “কোলান”
  • Cebuano: “Colan (distrito sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
  • Cebuano: “Colan”
  • Chinese: “Colan”
  • Chinese: “柯兰”
  • Chinese: “柯蘭”
  • Cornish: “Kolan”
  • Cornish: “Pluw Golan”
  • Dutch: “Colan”
  • French: “Colan”
  • German: “Colan”
  • Gujarati: “કોલન”
  • Irish: “Kolan”
  • Japanese: “コーラン”
  • Kannada: “ಕೋಲನ್”
  • Korean: “콜란”
  • Ladin: “Colan”
  • Lithuanian: “Kolanas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Colan”
  • Persian: “کولان، کورنوال”
  • Polish: “Colan”
  • Portuguese: “Colan”
  • Russian: “Коулан”
  • Spanish: “Colan”
  • Swedish: “Colan (distrikt i Storbritannien)”
  • Swedish: “Colan”
  • Tamil: “கோலன்”
  • Telugu: “కోలన్”
  • Turkish: “Colan, Cornwall”
  • Urdu: “کولان”
  • Welsh: “Colan, Cernyw”
  • Welsh: “Kolan”
  • Welsh: “Pluw Golan”
  • “Colan”

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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 “Colan”. Photo: Geoff Welding, CC BY-SA 2.0.