Porthtowan
Porthtowan is a small village in Cornwall, England, UK, which is a popular summer tourist destination. Porthtowan is on Cornwall's north Atlantic coast about 3.5 km southwest of St Agnes, 6 km north of Redruth, 16 km west of Truro and 24 km southwest of Newquay in the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, a World Heritage Site.Photo: Niki Walton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Residential area
- Description: village in Cornwall, England, UK
- Also known as: “Porthtowan, Cornwall”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Chapel Porth Beach and RRH Portreath.
RRH Portreath
Military installation
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Remote Radar Head Portreath or RRH Portreath is an air defence radar station operated by the Royal Air Force. It has a coastal location at Nancekuke Common, approximately 1.25 kilometres north east of the village of Portreath in Cornwall, England. RRH Portreath is situated 1½ miles southwest of Porthtowan.
The Parish Church of St John the Baptist
Church
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Parish Church of St John the Baptist is situated 1½ miles east of Porthtowan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mawla and Menagissey.
Mawla
Hamlet
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mawla is a village south of Porthtowan in Cornwall, England, UK. The earliest record of Mawla is in 960 AD; the meaning of the name is claimed to be "pigs' place" according to one source.
Menagissey
Hamlet
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Menagissey is a hamlet in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is half-a-mile south of Mount Hawke about three miles north-northeast of Redruth in the civil parish of St Agnes.
Porthtowan
- Category: village
- Location: St Agnes, North Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.28209° or 50° 16′ 56″ northLongitude
-5.23901° or 5° 14′ 20″ westElevation
230 feet (70 metres)Open location code
9C2P7QJ6+R9OpenStreetMap ID
way 96906952OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residential
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Porthtowan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “برثتون”
- Basque: “Porthtowan”
- Cornish: “Porthtewyn”
- Dutch: “Porthtowan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “برثتون”
- French: “Porthtowan”
- Irish: “Porthtowan”
- Italian: “Porthtowan”
- Latin: “Porthtowan”
- Persian: “پورتوان”
- Polish: “Porthtowan”
- Swedish: “Porthtowan”
- Welsh: “Porthtewyn”
- Welsh: “Porthtowan”
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