Porth Nanven
Porth Nanven is a beach in the far west of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is located half-a-mile west of the town of St Just. The beach is at the seaward end of the Cot Valley and is part of the Aire Point To Carrick Du Site of Special Scientific Interest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Ballowall Barrow and Cape Cornwall Chimney.
Ballowall Barrow
Archaeological site
Photo: Frances Watts, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ballowall Barrow is a prehistoric funerary cairn which Ashbee and Hencken state contains several phases of use from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. It is situated on the cliff top at Ballowall Common, near St Just in Cornwall, England, UK.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cot Valley and Boscean.
Cot Valley
Locality
Cot Valley is located half-a-mile south of St Just in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It has a very mild microclimate. The stream which runs down the valley discharges into the Atlantic Ocean at Nanven.
Boscean
Hamlet
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Boscean is a hamlet in the civil parish of St Just, on the Penwith peninsula in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, approximately half-a-mile northwest of St Just.
Kenidjack Valley
Locality
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kenidjack Valley, sometimes referred to as Nancherrow Valley, is a steep-sided valley in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The Tregeseal River flows down the valley and discharges into the Atlantic a few hundred yards north of Cape Cornwall, half-a-mile north-east of the village of St Just.
Porth Nanven
- Type: Harbor
- Description: bay in Cornwall, England, UK
- Categories: bay and transportation
- Location: St Just in Penwith, West Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From French to German—“Porth Nanven” goes by many names.
- French: “Porth Nanven”
- German: “Porth Nanven”
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