Perran Round
Perran Round is an amphitheatre in the hamlet of Rose, midway between the villages of Goonhavern and Perranporth, Cornwall, UK. It is described as the best surviving example of a plen-an-gwary, a medieval amphitheatre used for performing the Ordinalia, or Cornish miracle plays, and Cornish wrestling tournaments.Photo: Alan Simkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: Hill fort and plen an gwari in Cornwall, England, UK
- Also known as: “St Piran’s Round”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St Michael Mission Church and Church of Saint Piran.
St Michael Mission Church
Church
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Michael Mission Church is situated 1½ miles west of Perran Round.
Church of Saint Piran
Church
Photo: Fred James, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of Saint Piran is situated 1½ miles south of Perran Round.
Church of St Cubert
Church
Photo: Pierre Terre, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Cubert is a Grade I listed parish church in Cubert, Cornwall, England. It stands on a site traditionally associated with St Cubert, a 7th-century Welsh missionary. Church of St Cubert is situated 2 miles north of Perran Round.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rose and Goonhavern.
Rose
Hamlet
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rose is a hamlet in mid-Cornwall, UK. Rose is to the north-west of Goonhavern and east of Perranporth. Between Rose and Lower Rose is St Piran's Round, a circular earthwork which could have originally been an Iron Age circular enclosure.
Goonhavern
Village
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Goonhavern is a village in Cornwall, England, in the civil parish of Perranzabuloe. It is located along the A3075 road, about two miles east of Perranporth.
Bolingey
Village
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bolingey is a village on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is half-a-mile south of the small seaside resort of Perranporth and is in the civil parish of Perranzabuloe.
Perran Round
- Categories: enclosure, plen-an-gwary, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.34822° or 50° 20′ 54″ northLongitude
-5.12336° or 5° 7′ 24″ westOpen location code
9C2P8VXG+7MOpenStreetMap ID
node 5545547358OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q13422500
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In Other Languages
From Cornish to Welsh—“Perran Round” goes by many names.
- Cornish: “Plen an Gwari Lannberan”
- Latin: “St Piran’s Round”
- Welsh: “Plen an Gwari Lannberan”
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Highlights include Rose Methodist Church and Sunny Meadows Tourist Park.
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