The Towans
Towan is found in many placenames in Cornwall. However, The Towans usually refers to the three-mile stretch of coastal dunes which extends north-east from the estuary of the River Hayle to Gwithian beach with a midpoint near Upton.- Type: Hamlet with 100 residents
- Description: dunes between Hayle and Gwithian Beach in Cornwall, England, UK
- Also known as: “Riviere Towans”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hayle railway station and Lelant railway station.
Hayle railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hayle railway station serves the small town of Hayle, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Great Western Railway manage the station and operate most train services.
Lelant railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lelant railway station is on the waterfront of the Hayle estuary below the village of Lelant in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
St Felicitas and St Piala’s Church, Phillack
Church
Photo: Ivan Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Felicitas and St Piala’s Church, Phillack is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Truro in Phillack, Cornwall, England, UK.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Phillack and Lelant.
Phillack
Village
Photo: Ivan Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Phillack is a village in the parish of Hayle, in west Cornwall, England. It is about one mile northeast of Hayle and half-a-mile inland from St Ives Bay on Cornwall's Atlantic Ocean coast.
Lelant
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Copyrighted free use.
Lelant or Uny Lelant is a village in the civil parish of St Ives in, west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on the west side of the Hayle Estuary, about 2+1⁄2 miles southeast of St Ives and one mile west of Hayle.
Copperhouse
Suburb
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Copperhouse is an eastern suburb of Hayle in west Cornwall, England. It grew up around the Copperhouse Foundry, which was run by Sandys, Carne and Vivian.
The Towans
- Categories: dune and locality
- Location: Hayle, West Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.19508° or 50° 11′ 42″ northLongitude
-5.42645° or 5° 25′ 35″ westPopulation
100Open location code
9C2P5HWF+2COpenStreetMap ID
node 4362191932OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletWikidata ID
Q7769721
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