The Pipers
The Pipers are a pair of standing stones near The Merry Maidens stone circle located 2 miles to the south of the village of St Buryan, in Cornwall, United Kingdom.Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: standing stones in St Buryan, Cornwall, England, UK
- Also known as: “The Pipers (St Buryan)”, “The Pipers, St Buryan”, and “Two standing stones known as ‘The Pipers’, 130m and 230m south west of Boleigh Farm”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tregiffian Burial Chamber and Tater Du Lighthouse.
Tregiffian Burial Chamber
Archaeological site
Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Tregiffian Burial Chamber is a Neolithic or early Bronze Age chambered cairn. It is near Lamorna in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is a rare form of a passage grave, known as an Entrance grave. Tregiffian Burial Chamber is situated 2,100 feet southwest of The Pipers.
Tater Du Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tater Du Lighthouse is Cornwall's most recently built lighthouse. The construction of the lighthouse came out of the tragedy of losing a small Spanish coaster called the Juan Ferrer on 23 October 1963, on the nearby Boscawen Point, the vessel capsized with the loss of 11 lives. Tater Du Lighthouse is situated 1¼ miles south of The Pipers.
Boscawen-Un
Photo: Waterborough, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Boscawen-Ûn is a Bronze Age stone circle close to St Buryan in Cornwall, UK. It consists of nineteen upright stones in an ellipse with another, leaning, middle stone just south of the centre. Boscawen-Un is situated 2 miles northwest of The Pipers.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lamorna and Castallack.
Lamorna
Village
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lamorna is a village, valley and cove in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on the Penwith peninsula approximately 4 miles south of Penzance. Lamorna became popular with the artists of the Newlyn School, including Alfred Munnings, Laura Knight and Harold Knight, and is also known for former residents Derek and Jean Tangye who farmed land and wrote "The Minack Chronicles".
Castallack
Hamlet
Photo: Alan Simkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Castallack is a hamlet in the civil parish of St Buryan, Lamorna and Paul in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on a minor road between Sheffied and Lamorna.
St Loy’s Cove
Locality
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Loy's Cove is a small wooded valley and beach in the civil parish of St Buryan in Cornwall, England, UK. It is located two miles to the south of St Buryan churchtown, and between Penberth and Lamorna.
The Pipers
- Categories: menhir, archaeological site, tourism, and historic site
- Location: St Buryan, West Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.06808° or 50° 4′ 5″ northLongitude
-5.58509° or 5° 35′ 6″ westOpen location code
9C2P3C97+6XOpenStreetMap ID
node 2927699677OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q15949727
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In Other Languages
“The Pipers” goes by many names.
- German: “Pipers of Boleigh”
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Highlights include Borah Chapel and Gûn Rith Menhir.
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