Porthgwarra

Porthgwarra is a small coastal village in the civil parish of , , England, United Kingdom situated between and . Access to the cove is via a minor road off the B3283 road at and leads to the car park in the village.
Wikipedia
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Hamlet
  • Description: village in Cornwall, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Porthgorwydhow” and “Porthgwarra, Cornwall”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Porthgwarra Beach and Minack Theatre.

Beach
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Garden
Photo: Chef, Public domain.
The is an open-air theatre, constructed above a gully with a rocky granite outcrop jutting into the sea. The theatre is at , four miles from in , England.

Church
Photo: JimChampion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Levan Church, St Levan is a parish church in the located in , , United Kingdom. Until 1864 the church was a chapelry of the Royal Peculiar of the Deanery of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gwennap Head and Porthcurno.

Locality
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a headland on the south coast of the Penwith peninsula, , . It is within the parish of and approximately 4 miles south of , and less than 1 mile north-west of Porthgwarra, the nearest village.

Village
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is a small village covering a small valley and beach on the south coast of , England in the United Kingdom. It is the main settlement in a civil and an ecclesiastical parish, both named , which comprise , diminutive St Levan itself, and Treen.

Locality
Photo: Goatchurch, Public domain.
The , Runnelstone, or Rundle Stone, is a hazardous rock pinnacle about 1-mile south of , , England, United Kingdom. It used to show above the surface at low water until a steamship struck it in 1923.

Porthgwarra

Latitude
50.03775° or 50° 2′ 16″ north
Longitude
-5.67221° or 5° 40′ 20″ west
Elevation
82 feet (25 metres)
Open location code
9C2P28QH+44
Open­Street­Map ID
node 864626746
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
13281251
Wiki­data ID
Q976958
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Porthgwarra” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “برثغورا”
  • Basque: “Porthgwarra”
  • Breton: “Porthgorwydhow”
  • Cornish: “Porthgorwydhow”
  • Dutch: “Porthgwarra”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “برثجورا”
  • French: “Porthgwarra”
  • Irish: “Porthgorwydhow”
  • Manx: “Porthgorwydhow”
  • Polish: “Porthgwarra”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Porthgorwydhow”
  • Slovenian: “Porthgwarra”
  • Ukrainian: “Портґварра”
  • Urdu: “پورتھ گوارا”
  • Welsh: “Porthgorwydhow”
  • Welsh: “Porthgwarra”
  • “Porthgorwydhow”
  • “Porthgwarra”
  • “Porthgwarra - Porthgorwydhow”

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