Polkerris
Polkerris is a small village on the south coast of Cornwall, England. It forms part of the civil parish of Fowey. The village is part of the Menabilly estate, which is one of the seats of the Rashleigh family.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rashleigh Inn and Tregaminion Church.
Tregaminion Church
Church
Photo: Tim Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tregaminion Church is a Church of England church in Tregaminion, Cornwall, England, UK. The church dates to the early 19th century and is a Grade II* listed building.
Par Coastal Gun Battery
Bunker
Photo: Flappy Pigeon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Par Coastal Gun Battery was a coastal gun battery constructed in the summer of 1940 when Britain was facing the threat of invasion from Nazi Germany. It is on the former site of the Par Consols Mine, overlooking Par Docks.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Polmear and Par.
Polmear
Hamlet
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Polmear is a hamlet in Cornwall, England, UK. It is located on the A3082 road close to Par Sands and the village of Par. Part is in the civil parish of Fowey and part in Tywardreath and Par parish.
Par
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Par is in South Cornwall. A village and fishing port at the edge of Par Sands between St Austell and Fowey and half a mile from Twywardreath village and nearby to the hamlet of Polmear, at the bottom of Polmear Hill.
Tywardreath
Village
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Tywardreath is a small hilltop village on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, about 3 miles north west of Fowey. It is located in a sheltered spot overlooking a silted-up estuary opposite Par and near the beach of Par Sands.
Polkerris
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Cornwall, England, UK
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Fowey, South Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.33819° or 50° 20′ 18″ northLongitude
-4.68107° or 4° 40′ 52″ westElevation
49 feet (15 metres)Open location code
9C2Q88Q9+7HOpenStreetMap ID
node 1588114594OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Polkerris” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلكريس”
- Basque: “Polkerris”
- Cornish: “Pollkerys”
- Dutch: “Polkerris”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلكريس”
- French: “Polkerris”
- Irish: “Polkerris”
- Polish: “Polkerris”
- Welsh: “Polkerris”
- Welsh: “Pollkerys”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Booley Beach and Par Sands.
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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 “Polkerris”. Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.