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Newlyn

Newlyn is a fishing village in West Cornwall, a mile or two south of Penzance. The mediaeval quay, beloved of the Newlyn School painters, still exists and there are many charming cottages and narrow lanes to explore.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Newlyn Tidal Observatory and Penlee House.

Observatory
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is a grade II listed tide gauge hut on the South Pier in Newlyn, Cornwall in England. Measurements of sea level taken at the observatory between 1915 and 1921 were used to define the reference level, Ordnance Datum Newlyn, for height measurement on the British mainland.

Museum
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is a and art gallery in the town of Penzance, , home to many paintings by members of the Newlyn School, including The Rain It Raineth Every Day by Norman Garstin, School is Out by Elizabeth Forbes, Among the Missing by Walter Langley and On Paul Hill by Stanhope Forbes.

Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
serves the town of in west , England. It is the terminus of the Cornish Main Line and the southernmost railway station in , situated at milepost 326.5 miles from .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mousehole and Madron and Sancreed.

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is a charming fishing village in West Cornwall, known for its picturesque harbour. Dylan Thomas described as "the loveliest village in England."…

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

Village
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is a village in , England, United Kingdom. It is in the civil parish of . The village is two miles south of Penzance and one mile south of Newlyn.

Newlyn

Latitude
50.1063° or 50° 6′ 23″ north
Longitude
-5.55° or 5° 33′ 0″ west
Population
4,430
Elevation
98 feet (30 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB NYL
Open location code
9C2P4C4X+GX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29170199
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2641621
Wiki­data ID
Q13443285
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Newlyn” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Newlyn”
  • Basque: “Newlyn”
  • Breton: “Lulyn”
  • Chinese: “紐林”
  • Cornish: “Lulynn”
  • Czech: “Newlyn”
  • Dutch: “Newlyn”
  • French: “Newlyn”
  • German: “Newlyn”
  • Hebrew: “ניולין”
  • Irish: “Newlyn”
  • Italian: “Newlyn”
  • Japanese: “ニューリン”
  • Ladin: “Newlyn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Newlyn”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Newlyn”
  • Persian: “نیولین”
  • Polish: “Newlyn”
  • Russian: “Ньюлин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Newlyn”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیولین”
  • Spanish: “Newlyn”
  • Swedish: “Newlyn”
  • Welsh: “Newlyn”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Newlyn”. Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.