Hessenford
Hessenford is a small village in south-east Cornwall, United Kingdom, four miles west of St Germans on the A387 Polbathic to Polperro road. The village had a population of 170 at the 2001 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 170 residents
- Description: village in Cornwall, England, UK
- Also known as: “Hessenford, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Anne’s Church, Hessenford and Monkey Sanctuary.
St Anne’s Church, Hessenford
Church
Photo: Mervyn R Body, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Anne's Church is a former Church of England parish church in the village of Hessenford in Cornwall. It is dedicated to St Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary.
Monkey Sanctuary
Zoo
Photo: David Lally, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Monkey Sanctuary was founded in 1964 by Len Williams, father of classical guitarist John Williams, as a cooperative to care for rescued woolly monkeys. Monkey Sanctuary is situated 2½ miles southwest of Hessenford.
Church of St Nicholas
Church
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Nicholas is situated 2 miles south of Hessenford.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Narkurs and Shortacross.
Narkurs
Hamlet
Photo: Bill Booth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Narkurs is a hamlet in the south east of Cornwall, England. It is part of the civil parish of Deviock. It is about 2 km southeast of Hessenford. Historically an agricultural settlement, Narkurs has become smaller as this industry has declined, and in 2007 consisted of only 20 homes.
Shortacross
Hamlet
Photo: Kevin Hale, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shortacross is a hamlet in the civil parish of Morval in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Widegates
Hamlet
Photo: Kevin Hale, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Widegates is a village in south-east Cornwall, England, UK, about 4 miles north of Looe. It is on the A387 road about two miles west of Hessenford. The centre of the village lacks any sort of local amenity but there is a nearby farm shop on its outskirts.
Hessenford
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Deviock, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.39162° or 50° 23′ 30″ northLongitude
-4.38028° or 4° 22′ 49″ westPopulation
170Elevation
69 feet (21 metres)Open location code
9C2Q9JR9+JVOpenStreetMap ID
node 430706301OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
12264089Wikidata ID
Q5746205
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Hessenford” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هسنفرد”
- Basque: “Hessenford”
- Cornish: “Rys an Gwraghes”
- Dutch: “Hessenford”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هسنفرد”
- French: “Hessenford”
- Irish: “Hessenford”
- Polish: “Hessenford”
- Welsh: “Hessenford”
- Welsh: “Rys an Gwraghes”
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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 “Hessenford”. Photo: Mervyn R Body, CC BY-SA 2.0.