Widegates
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kevin Hale, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Cornwall, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Widegates, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sandplace railway station and Menheniot railway station.
Sandplace railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sandplace railway station is an intermediate station on the scenic Looe Valley Line in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The station serves the hamlet of Sandplace and is 6.5 miles south of Liskeard. Sandplace railway station is situated 2½ miles west of Widegates.
Menheniot railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Menheniot railway station serves the village of Menheniot in Cornwall, England. It is 261 miles 61 chains from London Paddington via Box and Plymouth Millbay. The station is managed by Great Western Railway, whose local trains serve the station. Menheniot railway station is situated 2 miles north of Widegates.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shortacross and No Man’s Land.
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.
No Man’s Land
Hamlet
Photo: Mark Evison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
No Man's Land is a crossroads hamlet in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately two miles northeast of Looe on the B3253 road to Widegates.
Hessenford
Hamlet
Photo: Mervyn R Body, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Widegates
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Morval, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.3955° or 50° 23′ 44″ northLongitude
-4.41318° or 4° 24′ 47″ westElevation
499 feet (152 metres)Open location code
9C2Q9HWP+5POpenStreetMap ID
node 1624608957OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Widegates” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Widegates”
- Cornish: “Porthledan”
- Dutch: “Widegates”
- French: “Widegates”
- Irish: “Widegates”
- Polish: “Widegates”
- Welsh: “Porthledan”
- Welsh: “Widegates”
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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 “Widegates”. Photo: Kevin Hale, CC BY-SA 2.0.