Coombe
Coombe is a village in Kea parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village lies beside the River Fal approximately 2+1⁄2 miles south of Truro at grid reference SW836409. Coombe lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Fred James, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village near Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Coombe, Cornwall” and “Coombe, Kea”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Trelissick and Old Kea Mission Chapel.
Trelissick
Garden
Trelissick is a house and garden in the ownership of the National Trust at Feock, near Truro, Cornwall, England. It is located on the B3289 road, just west of King Harry Ferry, and overlooks the estuary known as Carrick Roads.
Plen-an-gwary
Archaeological site
A plen-an-gwarry or plain-an-gwary, is a "playing-place" or round, a medieval amphitheatre found in Cornwall. A circular outdoor space used for plays, sports, and public events, the plen-an-gwary was a Cornish variant of a construction style found across Great Britain. Plen-an-gwary is situated 1½ miles west of Coombe.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cowlands and Old Kea.
Cowlands
Hamlet
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cowlands is a hamlet at the head of Coombe Creek southeast of Playing Place in Cornwall, England. According to the Post Office the population at the 2011 Census was included in the civil parish of Truro.
Old Kea
Hamlet
Photo: Fred James, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Old Kea is a hamlet in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated on the west bank of the Truro River approximately two miles south of Truro. This and the nearby village of Kea are said to have been named after the Saint Kea who arrived at Old Kea from Ireland in the 5th century.
Malpas
Village
Photo: David Stowell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Malpas is a riverside village, and former port, in the civil parish of St Clement, in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated two miles southeast of the city of Truro, on the confluence of the Truro River and the Tresillian River.
Coombe
- Category: locality
- Location: Kea, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.22865° or 50° 13′ 43″ northLongitude
-5.03237° or 5° 1′ 57″ westElevation
66 feet (20 metres)Open location code
9C2P6XH9+F3OpenStreetMap ID
node 29285798OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Coombe” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Coombe (Kea)”
- Basque: “Coombe”
- Dutch: “Coombe, Truro”
- Dutch: “Coombe”
- Polish: “Coombe (Truro)”
- Polish: “Coombe”
- Welsh: “Coombe, Truro”
- Welsh: “Coombe”
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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 “Coombe”. Photo: Fred James, CC BY-SA 2.0.