Cornwall
West Cornwall
St Just in Penwith

Bojewyan

Bojewyan is a settlement on the Penwith Peninsula in west , England, United Kingdom. The village lies along the B3306 road which runs along the north coast and connects to .
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: village in Cornwal, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Bojewyan, Cornwall” and “Higher Bojewyan”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chûn Quoit and Pendeen Lighthouse.

Archaeological site
Photo: Jim Champion (treehouse1977), CC BY-SA 2.0.
is one of the best preserved of all Neolithic quoits in western , England, United Kingdom. is located in open moorland near and .

Lighthouse
Photo: JimChampion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also known as Pendeen Watch is an active aid to navigation located 2 kilometres to the north of in west , England. It is located within the Aire Point to Carrick Du SSSI, the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Penwith Heritage Coast.

Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a large Iron Age hillfort near in , England, . The fort was built about 2,500 years ago, and fell into disuse until the early centuries AD when it was possibly re-occupied to protect the nearby tin mines.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pendeen and Boscaswell.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0 uk.
is a former mining town in West Cornwall. It is a quaint village in a designated 'Area of Natural Outstanding Beauty' with lots of interesting features such as the stunning lighthouse, a lovely beach, bronze-age monuments such as ' Fogou', the…

Village
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in the extreme west of , England, UK. It lies towards the cliffs from , looking west across fields to the Atlantic Ocean.

Village
Photo: Renouk, Public domain.
is a small village on the north coast road between and in , England, United Kingdom. It lies along the B3306 road which connects to the A30 road.

Bojewyan

Latitude
50.15471° or 50° 9′ 17″ north
Longitude
-5.65264° or 5° 39′ 10″ west
Elevation
433 feet (132 metres)
Open location code
9C2P583W+VW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29170999
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
13265912
Wiki­data ID
Q4938666
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Bojewyan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بجوين”
  • Basque: “Bojewyan”
  • Cornish: “Bosywyon”
  • Dutch: “Bojewyan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بجوين”
  • French: “Bojewyan”
  • Irish: “Bojewyan”
  • Polish: “Bojewyan”
  • Welsh: “Bojewyan”
  • Welsh: “Bosywyon”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Portherras and Pendeen Carn.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Borlaze Park and Wheal Hearle.

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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 “Bojewyan”. Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.