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Falmouth

Falmouth is a seaside town in South Cornwall. Famous for its beaches, it is home to the world's third largest natural harbour. The four main beaches in Falmouth are Gyllyngvase, Castle, Swanpool, and Maenporth.
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  • Type: Town with 25,200 residents
  • Description: town and port on the River Fal in Cornwall, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Falmouth, Cornwall”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pendennis Castle and Penmere railway station.

Castle
Photo: Darren Shilson, CC BY 2.0.
is an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII near Falmouth, Cornwall, England between 1540 and 1542. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, and defended the waterway at the mouth of the .

Railway station
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serves the northern part of Falmouth, , England. It is on the Maritime Line between and . The station is managed by, and the trains operated by, Great Western Railway.

Railway station
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is situated in Falmouth, Cornwall, England. It was opened in 1863 as the terminus of the Maritime Line from , although since 1970 has been the principal station for the town.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Penryn and Flushing.

Photo: Tim Green, CC BY 2.0.
is a civil parish and town in west , England, United Kingdom. It is on the River about 1 mile northwest of Falmouth. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 8,489 and the built up area as defined by the Office for National Statistics had a population of 11,195.

Village
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is a coastal village in the civil parish of , west Cornwall, UK. It is 3 miles east of and 10 miles south of . It faces Falmouth across the Penryn River, an arm of the .

Village
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is a village in , England, United Kingdom. It is in civil parish at the head of , about five miles north of Falmouth. is situated 2 miles north of Falmouth.

Falmouth

Latitude
50.1552° or 50° 9′ 19″ north
Longitude
-5.0688° or 5° 4′ 8″ west
Population
25,200
Elevation
112 feet (34 metres)
IATA airport code
UFM
United Nations Location Code
GB FAL
Open location code
9C2P5W4J+3F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29285363
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2649715
Wiki­data ID
Q478029
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Falmouth” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فالموث”
  • Armenian: “Ֆալմութ”
  • Asturian: “Falmouth”
  • Basque: “Falmouth”
  • Belarusian: “Фалмут”
  • Bengali: “ফ্যালমাউথ”
  • Breton: “Aberfal”
  • Breton: “Aberfala”
  • Breton: “Falmouth”
  • Bulgarian: “Фолмът”
  • Catalan: “Falmouth”
  • Cebuano: “Falmouth”
  • Chinese: “Falmouth”
  • Chinese: “法尔茅斯”
  • Chinese: “法爾茅斯”
  • Cornish: “Aberfal”
  • Cornish: “Aberfala”
  • Czech: “Falmouth”
  • Danish: “Falmouth (Cornwall)”
  • Danish: “Falmouth”
  • Dutch: “Falmouth”
  • Dutch: “Vaalmuiden”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فالموث”
  • Esperanto: “Falmuto”
  • Finnish: “Aberfala”
  • Finnish: “Falmouth”
  • French: “Falmouth”
  • Galician: “Falmouth”
  • German: “Aberfal”
  • German: “Falmouth”
  • Greek: “Φάλμουθ”
  • Gujarati: “ફેલમાઉથ”
  • Hebrew: “פלמות‘”
  • Irish: “Aberfala”
  • Irish: “Falmouth”
  • Italian: “Falmouth”
  • Japanese: “ファルマス”
  • Kannada: “ಫಾಲ್ಮೌತ್”
  • Korean: “팰머스”
  • Ladin: “Falmouth”
  • Latin: “Falensis Portus”
  • Latin: “Falmuthum”
  • Latvian: “Felmuta”
  • Lithuanian: “Falmutas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Falmouth (Cornwall)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aberfal”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Falmouth”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aberfal”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Falmouth”
  • Norwegian: “Falmouth”
  • Persian: “فالموث، کورنوال”
  • Polish: “Falmouth”
  • Portuguese: “Falmouth”
  • Quechua: “Falmouth”
  • Romanian: “Falmouth, Cornwall”
  • Romanian: “Falmouth”
  • Russian: “Фалмут”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Aberfal”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Falmouth”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Falmouth, Cornwall”
  • Silesian: “Falmouth (Yngland)”
  • Silesian: “Falmouth”
  • Slovak: “Falmouth”
  • Slovenian: “Falmouth”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فالموث، کورنوال”
  • Spanish: “Falmouth”
  • Swedish: “Falmouth”
  • Tamil: “பால்மோஉத்”
  • Telugu: “ఫల్మౌత్”
  • Turkish: “Falmouth, Cornwall”
  • Ukrainian: “Фалмут”
  • Urdu: “فالموود”
  • Urdu: “فلاماوتھ، کونوال”
  • Volapük: “Falmouth”
  • Welsh: “Aberfal”
  • Welsh: “Aberfala”
  • Welsh: “Falmouth”

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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 “Falmouth”. Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.