Canon’s Town
Canon's Town or Canonstown is a hamlet in west Cornwall, England, UK, situated on the A30 road in the civil parish of Ludgvan, between Penzance and Hayle. It is southwest of St Erth railway station. It is in the civil parish of St Erth…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Cornwall, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Canonstown” and “Canonstown, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Erth railway station and Lelant Saltings railway station.
St Erth railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Erth railway station is a Grade II listed station situated at Rose-an-Grouse in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It serves the nearby village of St Erth, which is about 0.75 miles away, and is the junction for the St Ives Bay Line to St Ives.
Lelant Saltings railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lelant Saltings railway station opened on 27 May 1978 to provide a park and ride facility for visitors to St Ives, Cornwall, England. It is situated on the A3074 road close to the junction with the A30 near the foot of the hill up to Lelant village.
St Erth’s Church, St Erth
Church
Photo: Dave Kelly, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Erth’s Church, St Erth, is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Truro in St Erth, Cornwall, England, UK.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rose-an-Grouse and Lelant Downs.
Rose-an-Grouse
Hamlet
Photo: David Long, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rose-an-Grouse is a hamlet in the civil parish of St Erth in west Cornwall, England. It is on the A30 road, east of Canon's Town, and St Erth railway station is on the southern side of the hamlet.
Lelant Downs
Hamlet
Photo: Sheila Russell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lelant Downs is a hamlet in the parish of Ludgvan, Cornwall, England.
St Erth
Photo: dennis white, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Erth is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. St Erth takes its name from Saint Erc, one of the many Irish saints who brought Christianity to Cornwall during the Dark Ages, and is at the old crossing point of the River Hayle.
Canon’s Town
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Ludgvan, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.16686° or 50° 10′ 1″ northLongitude
-5.45424° or 5° 27′ 15″ westElevation
138 feet (42 metres)Open location code
9C2P5G8W+P8OpenStreetMap ID
node 29172764OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Canon’s Town” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Canon’s Town”
- Cornish: “Trejenon”
- Dutch: “Canonstown”
- French: “Canonstown”
- Irish: “Canonstown”
- Italian: “Canon’s Town”
- Polish: “Canonstown”
- Spanish: “Canon’s Town”
- Swedish: “Canonstown”
- Welsh: “Canonstown”
- Welsh: “Trejenon”
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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 “Canon’s Town”. Photo: David Long, CC BY-SA 2.0.