Cawsand
Cawsand is one of twin villages on the Rame Peninsula in south-east Cornwall. Cawsand overlooks Plymouth Sound Cawsand is within Mount Edgcumbe Country Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Cornwall
- Also known as: “Causand”, “Cawsand, Cornwall”, and “Porthbugh”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Germanus’ Church, Rame and Mount Edgcumbe Country Park.
St Germanus’ Church, Rame
Church
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Germanus' Church is a Church of England church in Rame, Cornwall, England, UK. Much of the existing church dates to the 13th and 15th centuries. It has been Grade I listed since 1960.
Mount Edgcumbe Country Park
Park
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mount Edgcumbe Country Park is a grade I listed country park in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The 885 acres country park is on the Rame Peninsula, overlooking Plymouth Sound and the River Tamar.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kingsand and Anderton.
Kingsand
Village
Photo: Bobo12345, Public domain.
Kingsand and Cawsand are twin villages in southeast Cornwall, United Kingdom. The villages are situated on the Rame Peninsula and are in the parish of Maker-with-Rame.
Anderton
Neighborhood
Photo: Martin Southwood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Anderton is a settlement in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, located at grid reference SW 431 519. There are also places called Anderton in the parishes of Launcells and St Juliot.
Maker
Hamlet
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Maker is a village between Cawsand and Rame Head, Rame Peninsula, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The name means a ruin or old wall in Cornish, possibly because the church was built from the ruins of West Stonehouse in Cremyll.
Cawsand
- Category: locality
- Location: Maker-with-Rame, South Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.3323° or 50° 19′ 56″ northLongitude
-4.2028° or 4° 12′ 10″ westElevation
66 feet (20 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CNXOpen location code
9C2Q8QJW+WVOpenStreetMap ID
node 320748936OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2653467Wikidata ID
Q5055234
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Cawsand” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كوسند”
- Basque: “Cawsand”
- Breton: “Porthbugh”
- Cornish: “Porthbugh”
- Dutch: “Cawsand”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوسند”
- French: “Cawsand”
- Irish: “Cawsand”
- Polish: “Cawsand”
- Welsh: “Cawsand”
- Welsh: “Porthbugh”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Cawsand”. Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.