Porthoustock
Porthoustock is a hamlet near St Keverne in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, on the east coast of Lizard Peninsula. Aggregates are quarried nearby and Porthoustock beach is dominated by a large concrete stone silo that was once used to store stone ready to load ships but is now disused.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Roskilly’s and The Five Pilchards Inn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rosenithon and Porthallow.
Rosenithon
Hamlet
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rosenithon is a hamlet east of St Keverne in west Cornwall, England. The name Rosenithon comes from the Cornish language Ros an Eythin, which means 'the hill-spur of gorse'.
Porthallow
Hamlet
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Porthallow is a small fishing village on the east coast of The Lizard peninsula to the south of the Helford River, in Cornwall, England. It lies in St Keverne parish, north of St Keverne village.
Roskorwell
Hamlet
Roskorwell is a hamlet in the civil parish of St Keverne, in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies just north of Porthallow. The name Roskorwell comes from the Cornish language words ros, meaning 'hill-spur', and Korvil, a personal name.
Porthoustock
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Cornwall, England, UK
- Categories: hamlet and locality
- Location: St Keverne, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.0563° or 50° 3′ 23″ northLongitude
-5.06613° or 5° 3′ 58″ westElevation
39 feet (12 metres)Open location code
9C2P3W4M+GGOpenStreetMap ID
node 271376809OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Porthoustock” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Porthoustock”
- Breton: “Porthewstek”
- Cornish: “Porthewstek”
- French: “Porthoustock”
- Polish: “Porthoustock”
- Welsh: “Porthewstek”
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