Pendeen

Pendeen is a former mining town in West Cornwall. It is a quaint village in a designated 'Area of Natural Outstanding Beauty' with lots of interesting features such as the stunning lighthouse, a lovely beach, bronze-age monuments such as 'Pendeen Fogou', the…
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: village in Cornwall, England
  • Also known as: “Pendeen, Cornwall”
  • Postal code: TR19

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pendeen Lighthouse and Levant Mine and Beam Engine.

Lighthouse
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, also known as Pendeen Watch, is an active aid to navigation located 2 kilometres to the north of Pendeen in west , England.

Museum
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is a National Trust property at , Pendeen, near , , England, UK. Its main attraction is that it has the world's oldest Cornish steam winding engine still working in its original location.

Peak
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hill in , , UK. It is covered in megaliths including . A tale is told that two miners returning home one night witnessed a wrestling match near , which was presided over by the Devil.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Morvah and Bojewyan.

Village
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is a civil parish and village on the Penwith peninsula in west , England, United Kingdom. The parish has a population of 49.

Village
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is a settlement on the Penwith Peninsula in west , . The village lies along the B3306 road which runs along the north coast and connects to .

Village
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is a small village on the north coast road between and in , England, United Kingdom. It lies along the B3306 road which connects to the A30 road.

Pendeen

Latitude
50.1513° or 50° 9′ 5″ north
Longitude
-5.6653° or 5° 39′ 55″ west
Elevation
427 feet (130 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB PNE
Open location code
9C2P582M+GV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29170535
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
9883559
Wiki­data ID
Q3374651
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Pendeen” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بندين”
  • Basque: “Pendeen”
  • Cebuano: “Pendeen”
  • Cornish: “Boskaswal Wartha”
  • Dutch: “Pendeen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بندين”
  • French: “Pendeen”
  • Irish: “Pendeen”
  • Italian: “Pendeen”
  • Persian: “پندین”
  • Polish: “Pendeen”
  • Swedish: “Pendeen”
  • Urdu: “پینڈین”
  • Welsh: “Boskaswal Wartha”
  • Welsh: “Pendeen”

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