Madron Well

Madron Well is an archaeological site in Madron, Cornwall, England. Madron Well is situated nearby to the hamlet Carfury, as well as near Boscathnoe Reservoir.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Madron Well and Madron Well Chapel and Trengwainton Garden.

Madron Well and Madron Well Chapel

Ruins

Photo: Malcolm Kewn, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Madron Well and Madron Well Chapel is a scheduled Ancient Monument in the civil parish of Madron, Cornwall, UK. Madron Well Chapel is the ruin of a 12th- or 14th-century chapel dedicated to St Madern and occupies the site of a much older Celtic structure.

Trengwainton Garden

Garden

Photo: N p holmes, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Trengwainton is a garden situated in Madron, near Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK, which has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1961. The garden is noted for its collection of exotic trees and shrubs and offers views over Mount's Bay and The Lizard. Trengwainton Garden is situated 1 mile south of Madron Well.

Lanyon Quoit

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Lanyon Quoit is a dolmen in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, 2 miles southeast of Morvah. It collapsed in a storm in 1815 and was re-erected nine years later, and as a result the dolmen is now very different from its original appearance. Lanyon Quoit is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Madron Well.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Madron and Madron and Sancreed.

Madron

Village

Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Madron is a civil parish and village in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Madron is named after Saint Madern's Church. Its annual Trafalgar Service commemorating the death of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson was started on 27 October 1946, following a local tradition that his death was first announced on British soil in the Union Hotel, Penzance.

Madron and Sancreed

Photo: Daderot, CC0.

Madron and Sancreed are the two landlocked parishes on the Penwith peninsula in West Cornwall.

Carfury

Hamlet

Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Carfury is a hamlet in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated in Penwith approximately three miles northwest of Penzance. It is in the civil parish of Madron The 19th-century geologist Elizabeth Carne founded a school in Carfury.

Madron Well

Type: Archaeological site
Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Madron, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.13981° or 50° 8′ 23″ north

Longitude

-5.57596° or 5° 34′ 33″ west

Open location code

9C2P4CQF+WJ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 444767697

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=archaeological_site

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include St Maddern’s Church, Madron and Trythall Community Primary School.

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