Burras
Burras is a village in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, approximately five miles south of Redruth on the B3297 road. It is in the civil parish of St Gluvias…| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Cornwall, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Burras, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Christopher Church and Community Centre and Poldark Mine.
Poldark Mine
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Poldark Mine is a tourist attraction near the town of Helston in Cornwall, England, UK. It lies within the Wendron Mining District of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site. Poldark Mine is situated 2 miles south of Burras.
Carwynnen Quoit
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carwynnen Quoit is a dolmen belonging to the Neolithic period, at Carwynnen near Camborne in west Cornwall. It is also known as 'The Giant's Quoit', 'The Giant's Frying Pan', 'Pendarvis Quoit' and 'Pendarves Quoit'. Carwynnen Quoit is situated 2½ miles northwest of Burras.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lezerea and Boswin.
Lezerea
Hamlet
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lezerea is a farmstead near Wendron in Cornwall, England, UK. Lezerea is in the civil parish of Wendron, situated approximately 7 miles west of Falmouth.
Boswin
Locality
Boswin is a hamlet in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, situated in a former mining area south of Redruth. According to the Post Office the population of the hamlet was included in the civil parish of Wendron…
Porkellis
Village
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Porkellis is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is approximately three and a half miles north-east of Helston, and is in the heart of the old Wendron mining district.
Burras
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Wendron, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.16822° or 50° 10′ 6″ northLongitude
-5.25282° or 5° 15′ 10″ westElevation
489 feet (149 metres)Open location code
9C2P5P9W+7VOpenStreetMap ID
node 1844619852OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Burras” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بورس”
- Basque: “Burras”
- Cornish: “Berres”
- Dutch: “Burras”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بورس”
- French: “Burras”
- Irish: “Burras”
- Polish: “Burras”
- Welsh: “Berres”
- Welsh: “Burras”
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