Plaidy
Plaidy is an eastern suburb of Looe, Cornwall, England, UK. Plaidy Beach is a sandy beach and Millendreath Beach is at its eastern end. The writer Eleanor Hibbert lived near Plaidy Beach during World War II and used it as the basis for one of her pen names, Jean Plaidy.Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Suburb
- Description: suburb of Looe, Cornwall, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Plaidy, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Looe railway station and Old Guildhall, Looe.
Looe railway station
Railway station
Photo: Andrewrabbott, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Looe railway station serves the twin towns of East and West Looe, in Cornwall, England. The station is the terminus of the scenic Looe Valley Line 8+3⁄4 miles south of Liskeard. It faces out across the estuary of the River Looe.
Old Guildhall, Looe
Museum
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Old Guildhall is a municipal building in Higher Market Street in Looe, Cornwall, England. The structure, which is currently used as a museum, is a Grade II* listed building.
Banjo Pier
Lighthouse
Photo: roger geach, CC BY-SA 2.0.
A Banjo Pier is a pier in the shape of a banjo. The most notable example is probably the Banjo Pier in Looe, Cornwall, England, as it was the first and thus the prototype for many others around the world.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Millendreath and West Looe.
Millendreath
Locality
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Millendreath is a hamlet in the parish of St Martin-by-Looe, Cornwall, England, situated two miles east of the town of Looe. A station was to be built at Millendreath as part of the proposed St Germans & Looe Railway in the late 1930s, but the railway was abandoned without the station having been built.
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. No Man’s Land is situated 2 miles north of Plaidy.
Plaidy
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Looe, South Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.35971° or 50° 21′ 35″ northLongitude
-4.44315° or 4° 26′ 35″ westElevation
171 feet (52 metres)Open location code
9C2Q9H54+VPOpenStreetMap ID
node 2579328950OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Plaidy” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Plaidy (Kornualles)”
- Basque: “Plaidy”
- Dutch: “Plaidy, Cornwall”
- French: “Plaidy”
- Irish: “Plaidy”
- Welsh: “Plaidy, Cernyw”
- Welsh: “Plaidy”
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Notable Places Nearby
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