Chapel Carn Brea

Chapel Carn Brea is an elevated Hercynian granite outcrop, owned by the National Trust at the southern edge of the civil parish of St Just, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Type: Peak with an elevation of 653 feet
Description: hill in Cornwall, England, UK
Also known as: “Carn Brea”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Land’s End Airport and Carn Euny.

Land’s End Airport

Aerodrome

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Land's End Airport, situated near St Just in Penwith, 6 miles west of Penzance, in Cornwall, England, is the most south westerly airport of mainland Britain.

Carn Euny

Archaeological site

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Carn Euny is an archaeological site near Sancreed, on the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It consists of evidence of both Iron Age and post-Iron Age settlement, with excavation on the site showing activity at Carn Euny as early as the Neolithic period.

Fogou

Historic site

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A fogou or fougou is an underground, dry-stone structure found on Iron Age or Romano-British-defended settlement sites in Cornwall. The original purpose of a fogou is uncertain today.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Crows-an-Wra and Brane.

Crows-an-Wra

Hamlet

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Crows-an-Wra is a hamlet in West Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated in the civil parish of St Buryan, Lamorna and Paul approximately four miles northeast of Land's End.

Brane

Hamlet

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Brane is a hamlet southwest of Sancreed in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is in the civil parish of Sancreed. It is noted for the Carn Euny Iron Age site which lies to the north.