Poltesco
Poltesco is a hamlet and valley in the parish of Grade-Ruan, on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, UK. The lower part of the valley is owned by the National Trust and was once the site of a stone industry that exported carved ornaments to the rest of Britain and Europe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Trevor Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Rumon, Ruan Minor and St Mary.
Kennack Sands
Beach
Photo: Simon Huguet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kennack Sands is a beach and sand-dune system on the east coast of the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, England, UK.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kuggar and Ruan Minor.
Kuggar
Village
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kuggar is a hamlet in the parish of Grade-Ruan in Cornwall, England. Kuggar, within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, lies off the A3083 road, between the villages of St Ruan and Gwendreath.
Ruan Minor
Village
Photo: Thomas E Saunders, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grade–Ruan is a civil parish on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, England, approximately ten miles south of Falmouth. It is a rural parish bounded to the east by St Keverne parish and by the sea; to the west by Mullion and Cury parishes; and to the south by Landewednack parish.
St Ruan
Village
St Ruan is a hamlet in the civil parish of Grade-Ruan, west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Poltesco
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: hamlet in Cornwall, England, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Grade–Ruan, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
49.99819° or 49° 59′ 54″ northLongitude
-5.17671° or 5° 10′ 36″ westElevation
108 feet (33 metres)Open location code
8CXPXRXF+78OpenStreetMap ID
node 29282500OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“Poltesco” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Poltesco”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lizard Serpentine Works and Black Rock.
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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 “Poltesco”. Photo: Trevor Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.