Brea
Brea is a village in Cornwall, England, UK, between the towns of Camborne and Redruth. It is in the civil parish of Carn Brea and consists of Brea, Lower Brea, and Higher Brea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Cornwall, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Brea, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include All Saints’ Church, Tuckingmill and Camborne railway station.
All Saints’ Church, Tuckingmill
Church
Photo: Dave Kelly, CC BY-SA 2.0.
All Saints’ Church, Tuckingmill is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Pendarves Street, Tuckingmill, Camborne, Cornwall.
Camborne railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Camborne railway station serves the town of Camborne, Cornwall, England. The station is 313 miles 40 chains from the zero point at London Paddington measured via Box and Plymouth Millbay.
King Edward Mine
Museum
Photo: Ashley Dace, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The King Edward Mine at Camborne, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom is a mine owned by Cornwall Council. At the end of the 19th century, students at the Camborne School of Mines spent much of their time doing practical mining and tin dressing work in the local tin mines.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tuckingmill and Pool.
Tuckingmill
Village
Photo: Colin Pyle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tuckingmill is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, which is in the civil parish of Camborne. Tucking Mill was the Cornish term for a fulling mill which was where homespun cloth was dipped, cleansed and dressed.
Pool
Village
Photo: Ashley Dace, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pool is a village in Carn Brea civil parish in west Cornwall, England. It is bypassed by the A30, on the A3047 between Camborne and Redruth, between Tuckingmill and Illogan Highway.
Brea
- Category: locality
- Location: Camborne, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.21609° or 50° 12′ 58″ northLongitude
-5.27486° or 5° 16′ 30″ westElevation
341 feet (104 metres)Open location code
9C2P6P8G+C3OpenStreetMap ID
node 724414755OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Brea” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بريا”
- Basque: “Brea (Kornualles)”
- Basque: “Brea”
- Cornish: “Bre”
- Dutch: “Brea, Cornwall”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بريا”
- French: “Brea”
- Irish: “Brea”
- Welsh: “Brea, Cernyw”
- Welsh: “Brea”
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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 “Brea”. Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.