Cornwall
West Cornwall
St Ives

Carbis Bay

Carbis Bay is a seaside resort and village in , England. It lies 1 mile southeast of , on the western coast of , on the Atlantic coast. The South West Coast Path passes above the beach.
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  • Type: Village with 3,970 residents
  • Description: village in Cornwall, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Carbis Bay (settlement)” and “Carbis Bay, Cornwall”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Ives railway station and Carbis Bay railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station which serves the coastal town of , England. It was opened in 1877 as the terminus of the last new broad gauge passenger railway to be constructed in the country.

Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is on the St Ives Bay Line in , England, United Kingdom and serves the village and beach of Carbis Bay, a community that only adopted this name after the arrival of the railway in 1877.

Museum
Photo: Sarah Charlesworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The and Sculpture Garden in , preserves the 20th-century sculptor Barbara Hepworth's studio and garden much as they were when she lived and worked there.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hayle and St Erth.

Photo: Tim Green, CC BY 2.0.
is a small town, civil parish and cargo port in the Penwith district of West Cornwall. The town, whose name is derived from the Cornish heyl, meaning estuary, is situated at the southern end of St Ives Bay on the estuary of the River, approximately 9 mi south-east of the town of by road.

Photo: dennis white, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a civil parish and village in , England, United Kingdom. takes its name from Saint Erc, one of the many Irish saints who brought Christianity to Cornwall during the Dark Ages, and is at the old crossing point of the .

Village
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or Uny is a village in the civil parish of in, west , England, UK. It is on the west side of the Hayle Estuary, about 2+1⁄2 miles southeast of and one mile west of .

Carbis Bay

Latitude
50.1968° or 50° 11′ 48″ north
Longitude
-5.4646° or 5° 27′ 53″ west
Population
3,970
Elevation
226 feet (69 metres)
Open location code
9C2P5GWP+P4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29171794
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2653833
Wiki­data ID
Q5037874
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Satellite Map

Discover Carbis Bay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Carbis Bay” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Carbis Bay”
  • Breton: “Porth reb Tor”
  • Breton: “Porthreptor”
  • Catalan: “badia de Carbis”
  • Cebuano: “Carbis Bay”
  • Chinese: “卡比斯湾”
  • Cornish: “Porthreptor”
  • Dutch: “Carbis Bay”
  • French: “Carbis Bay”
  • German: “Carbis Bay”
  • Irish: “Carbis Bay”
  • Italian: “Carbis Bay”
  • Japanese: “カービス・ベイ”
  • Japanese: “カービス湾”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Carbis Bay”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karrbons”
  • Polish: “Carbis Bay”
  • Spanish: “Bahia de Carbis”
  • Spanish: “Bahía de Carbis”
  • Swedish: “Carbis Bay”
  • Venetian: “Baja de Carbis”
  • Welsh: “Carbis Bay”

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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 “Carbis Bay”. Photo: Vdemedina, CC BY-SA 3.0.