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 Lizard Peninsula.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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 Truthall Halt railway station.
Flambards Theme Park
Theme park
Photo: Lewis Clarke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Flambards Theme Park was an amusement park on the southern outskirts of the town of Helston in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1976 as the Cornwall Aero Park by Douglas Kingsford Hale MBE.
Truthall Halt railway station
Railway station
Photo: Malcolm Kewn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 Gwavas, and also Truthall Manor.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Porthleven and Sithney.
Porthleven
Photo: Bs0u10e01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Porthleven is near Helston on the south coast of West Cornwall at the top of the Lizard Peninsula. The South West Coast Path from Somerset to Dorset passes through the town.
Sithney
Village
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sithney is a village and civil parish in the West of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Sithney is north of Porthleven. The population including Boscadjack and Crowntown at the 2011 census was 841.
Breage
Village
Breage is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is three miles west of Helston. Other settlements in the parish include the villages of Ashton, Carleen and Godolphin Cross; the coastal village of Praa Sands; and the Great Work Mine. Breage is situated 3 miles west of Helston.
Helston
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: West Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.1017° or 50° 6′ 6″ northLongitude
-5.273° or 5° 16′ 23″ westPopulation
11,200Elevation
197 feet (60 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB HYJOpen location code
9C2P4P2G+MQOpenStreetMap ID
node 18327458OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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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