Helston

Helston is a small market town in the south west of Cornwall which is famous for its Flora Day celebrations and Furry Dance. It is the most southerly town in mainland United Kingdom, and it acts as a gateway to the Peninsula.
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  • Type: Town with 11,200 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Cornwall, UK
  • Also known as: “Helston civil parish”, “Helston CP”, and “Helston, Cornwall”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Flambards Theme Park and The Loe.

Theme park
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was an amusement park on the southern outskirts of the town of Helston in , United Kingdom. It was founded in 1976 as the Cornwall Aero Park by Douglas Kingsford Hale MBE.

Lagoon
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, also known as Loe Pool, is the largest natural freshwater lake in , United Kingdom. The earliest recorded appearance of this simple name form was in 1337, when it was called "La Loo", but is mentioned as 'the lake' in 1302; Situated between and and downstream of Helston, it is separated from by the shingle bank of Loe Bar.

Railway station
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Truthall Halt on the Helston branch was opened on 3 July 1905. The small station, which was located just above the 300 feet contour, served the villages of Trannack and , and also Truthall Manor.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Porthleven and Breage.

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is near Helston on the south coast of West Cornwall at the top of the Peninsula. The South West Coast Path from Somerset to Dorset passes through the town.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in , England, United Kingdom. The village is three miles west of Helston. Other settlements in the parish include the villages of , Carleen and ; the coastal village of ; and the Great Work Mine. is situated 2½ miles west of Helston.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the West of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. is north of . The population including Boscadjack and Crowntown at the 2011 census was 841.

Helston

Latitude
50.1009° or 50° 6′ 3″ north
Longitude
-5.2746° or 5° 16′ 28″ west
Population
11,200
Elevation
197 feet (60 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB HYJ
Open location code
9C2P4P2G+95
Open­Street­Map ID
node 18327458
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2647143
Wiki­data ID
Q1012535
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Helston” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هيلستون”
  • Asturian: “Helston”
  • Basque: “Helston”
  • Bengali: “হেলসটন”
  • Breton: “Hellys”
  • Breton: “Helston”
  • Cebuano: “Helston”
  • Chinese: “Helston”
  • Chinese: “赫尔斯通”
  • Chinese: “赫尔斯顿”
  • Chinese: “赫爾斯通”
  • Cornish: “Hellys”
  • Cornish: “Henlys”
  • Dutch: “Helston”
  • French: “Helston”
  • Galician: “Helston”
  • German: “Helston”
  • Gujarati: “હેલસ્ટન”
  • Irish: “Hellys”
  • Irish: “Helston”
  • Italian: “Helston”
  • Japanese: “ヘルストン (イングランド)”
  • Japanese: “ヘルストン”
  • Kannada: “ಹೆಲ್ಸ್ಟನ್”
  • Korean: “헬스턴”
  • Ladin: “Helston”
  • Latin: “Helston”
  • Lithuanian: “Helstonas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Helston”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Helston”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Helston”
  • Persian: “هلستون”
  • Polish: “Helston”
  • Portuguese: “Helston”
  • Romanian: “Helston”
  • Russian: “Хельстон”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هلستون”
  • Spanish: “Helston”
  • Swedish: “Helston”
  • Tamil: “ஹீல்ஸ்டோன்”
  • Tatar: “Хельстон”
  • Telugu: “హేల్స్టన్”
  • Turkish: “Helston”
  • Urdu: “ھلسٹن”
  • Volapük: “Hellys”
  • Volapük: “Helston”
  • Volapük: “Henlys”
  • Welsh: “Hellys”
  • Welsh: “Helston”
  • “Helston”

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