Boswarthen
Boswarthen is a locality in Madron, Cornwall, England. Boswarthen is situated nearby to the hamlet Carfury, as well as near Lower Ninnes.Places of Interest
Highlights include Lanyon Quoit and Madron Well and Madron Well Chapel.
Lanyon Quoit
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Lanyon Quoit is a dolmen in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, 2 miles southeast of Morvah. It collapsed in a storm in 1815 and was re-erected nine years later, and as a result the dolmen is now very different from its original appearance.
Madron Well and Madron Well Chapel
Ruins
Photo: Malcolm Kewn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Madron Well and Madron Well Chapel is a scheduled Ancient Monument in the civil parish of Madron, Cornwall, UK. Madron Well Chapel is the ruin of a 12th- or 14th-century chapel dedicated to St Madern and occupies the site of a much older Celtic structure.
Ding Dong mines
Archaeological site
Photo: Malcolm Kewn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Ding Dong mines lie in an old and extensive mining area in the parish of Madron, in Penwith, Cornwall. They are about two miles north east of the St Just to Penzance road and look over Mount's Bay and St Michael's Mount to the south west.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carfury and Boskednan.
Carfury
Hamlet
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carfury is a hamlet in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated in Penwith approximately three miles northwest of Penzance. It is in the civil parish of Madron The 19th-century geologist Elizabeth Carne founded a school in Carfury.
Boskednan
Hamlet
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boskednan is a hamlet near Mulfra Hill northwest of Penzance in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in the civil parish of Madron. The Boskednan stone circle, also called the Nine Maidens of Boskednan, is nearby.
Madron
Village
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Madron is a civil parish and village in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Madron is named after Saint Madern's Church. Its annual Trafalgar Service commemorating the death of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson was started on 27 October 1946, following a local tradition that his death was first announced on British soil in the Union Hotel, Penzance.
Boswarthen
- Type: Locality
- Location: Madron, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.1431° or 50° 8′ 35″ northLongitude
-5.58233° or 5° 34′ 56″ westElevation
538 feet (164 metres)Open location code
9C2P4CV9+63GeoNames ID
13281606
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