Banjo Pier
A Banjo Pier is a pier in the shape of a banjo. The most notable example is probably the Banjo Pier in Looe, Cornwall, England, as it was the first and thus the prototype for many others around the world.Photo: roger geach, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Old Guildhall, Looe and St Nicholas’ Church, West Looe.
Old Guildhall, Looe
Museum
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Old Guildhall is a municipal building in Higher Market Street in Looe, Cornwall, England. The structure, which is currently used as a museum, is a Grade II* listed building. Old Guildhall, Looe is situated 840 feet northwest of Banjo Pier.
St Nicholas’ Church, West Looe
Church
St Nicholas’ Church, West Looe is a Church of England parish church in Looe, Cornwall. St Nicholas’ Church, West Looe is situated 1,300 feet northwest of Banjo Pier.
Looe Lifeboat Station
Building
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Looe Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboats at Looe, Cornwall in the United Kingdom. It was first opened in 1866 but closed 1930. A new lifeboat station was opened in 1992 and the present building dates from 2003. Looe Lifeboat Station is situated 600 feet northwest of Banjo Pier.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Looe and Plaidy.
Plaidy
Suburb
Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Plaidy is an eastern suburb of Looe, Cornwall, England, UK. Plaidy Beach is a sandy beach and Millendreath Beach is at its eastern end. The writer Eleanor Hibbert lived near Plaidy Beach during World War II and used it as the basis for one of her pen names, Jean Plaidy.
Millendreath
Locality
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Millendreath is a hamlet in the parish of St Martin-by-Looe, Cornwall, England, situated two miles east of the town of Looe. A station was to be built at Millendreath as part of the proposed St Germans & Looe Railway in the late 1930s, but the railway was abandoned without the station having been built.
Banjo Pier
- Type: Lighthouse
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Looe, South Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.35098° or 50° 21′ 4″ northLongitude
-4.45107° or 4° 27′ 4″ westOpen location code
9C2Q9G2X+9HOpenStreetMap ID
node 2425618160OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouseWikidata ID
Q4855855
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