Porthgwarra
Porthgwarra is a small coastal village in the civil parish of St Levan, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom situated between Land's End and Porthcurno. Access to the cove is via a minor road off the B3283 road at Polgigga and leads to the car park in the village.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Cornwall, England, UK
- Also known as: “Porthgwarra, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Porthgwarra Beach and Minack Theatre.
Minack Theatre
Garden
Photo: Chef, Public domain.
The Minack Theatre is an open-air theatre, constructed above a gully with a rocky granite outcrop jutting into the sea. The theatre is at Porthcurno, four miles from Land's End in Cornwall, England.
St Levan’s Church, St Levan
Church
Photo: JimChampion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Levan Church, St Levan is a parish church in the Church of England located in St Levan, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Until 1864 the church was a chapelry of the Royal Peculiar of the Deanery of St Buryan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gwennap Head and Porthcurno.
Gwennap Head
Locality
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gwennap Head is a headland on the south coast of the Penwith peninsula, Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is within the parish of St Levan and approximately 4 miles south of Land's End, and less than 1 mile north-west of Porthgwarra, the nearest village.
Porthcurno
Village
Photo: Cyr, CC BY-SA 2.0 uk.
Porthcurno is a small village covering a small valley and beach on the south coast of Cornwall, England in the United Kingdom. It is the main settlement in a civil and an ecclesiastical parish, both named St Levan, which comprise Porthcurno, diminutive St Levan itself, Trethewey and Treen.
Runnel Stone
Locality
Photo: Goatchurch, Public domain.
The Runnel Stone, or Rundle Stone, is a hazardous rock pinnacle about 1-mile south of Gwennap Head, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It used to show above the surface at low water until a steamship struck it in 1923.
Porthgwarra
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: St Levan, West Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.03775° or 50° 2′ 16″ northLongitude
-5.67221° or 5° 40′ 20″ westElevation
82 feet (25 metres)Open location code
9C2P28QH+44OpenStreetMap ID
node 864626746OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Porthgwarra” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “برثغورا”
- Basque: “Porthgwarra”
- Cornish: “Porthgorwydhow”
- Dutch: “Porthgwarra”
- Egyptian Arabic: “برثجورا”
- French: “Porthgwarra”
- Irish: “Porthgwarra”
- Polish: “Porthgwarra”
- Slovenian: “Porthgwarra”
- Ukrainian: “Портґварра”
- Welsh: “Porthgorwydhow”
- Welsh: “Porthgwarra”
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Highlights include Cove Cottage and Rowe’s Cottage.
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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 “Porthgwarra”. Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.