Mayon
Mayon is a hamlet on the A30 main road north of Sennen in west Cornwall, England. Mayon is about 7 miles south-west of Penzance. Much of the land in St Levan belonged to the manor of Mayon, and in the early 17th century the land was divided between six heiresses, one of whom married John St Aubyn.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: hamlet in Cornwall, England, UK
- Also known as: “Mayon, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Sennen’s Church and Maen Castle.
St Sennen’s Church
Church
Photo: Chris06, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. Sennen's Church, Sennen is a parish church in the Church of England located in Sennen, Cornwall, England, UK.
Maen Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Maen Castle is an Iron Age promontory fort or 'cliff castle' close to Land's End in Cornwall.
The Round House
Art gallery
Photo: Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Round House is an art gallery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sennen and Skewjack.
Sennen
Village
Photo: David Long, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sennen is a coastal civil parish and a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Sennen village is situated approximately eight miles west-southwest of Penzance.
Skewjack
Locality
Photo: Sheila Russell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Skewjack is a plot of land in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated about 1.5 miles east of Land's End on the B3315 road. It was the site of RAF Sennen, and is now the site of a Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe building.
Mayon
- Categories: hamlet and locality
- Location: Sennen, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.07412° or 50° 4′ 27″ northLongitude
-5.69277° or 5° 41′ 34″ westElevation
315 feet (96 metres)Open location code
9C2P38F4+JVOpenStreetMap ID
node 868131102OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Mayon” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Mayon (Kornualles)”
- Basque: “Mayon”
- Dutch: “Mayon, Cornwall”
- Ukrainian: “Мейон”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Treeve Common and RMS Mulheim (wreck).
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Post Office Sennen and Sennen And Lands End Post Office.
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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 “Mayon”. Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.