Boskednan
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.Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: human settlement in Madron, Cornwall
- Also known as: “Boskednin”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Boskednan stone circle and Ding Dong mines.
Boskednan stone circle
Archaeological site
Photo: JimChampion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Boskednan stone circle is a partially restored prehistoric stone circle near Boskednan, around 4 miles northwest of the town of Penzance in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
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.
Mên-an-Tol
Archaeological site
Photo: Bkroll, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Mên-an-Tol is a small formation of standing stones in Cornwall, England. It is about three miles northwest of Madron. It is also known locally as the "Crick Stone".
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carfury and Bodrifty.
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.
Bodrifty
Hamlet
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bodrifty is the modern name of an Iron Age village, now in ruins, in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is 700 yards west of Mulfra Hill in Penwith District, 3 miles northwest of Penzance and 1.5 miles southwest of Porthmeor, on the high ground of the watershed between the Atlantic and the English Channel.
Mulfra
Hamlet
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mulfra is a hamlet in the parish of Madron, Cornwall, England and is on the southern slope of Mulfra Hill. Nearby is the Scheduled monument, Mulfra Quoit, which is a portal dolmen, i.e. a ceremonial and funerary monument dating from the early or middle Neolithic period, probably in use from 3500 to 2600 BC.
Boskednan
- Category: locality
- Location: Madron, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.15658° or 50° 9′ 24″ northLongitude
-5.58389° or 5° 35′ 2″ westElevation
623 feet (190 metres)Open location code
9C2P5C48+JCOpenStreetMap ID
node 470881142OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Boskednan” goes by many names.
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