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…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Pendeen Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: JimChampion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pendeen Lighthouse, also known as Pendeen Watch is an active aid to navigation located 2 kilometres to the north of Pendeen in west Cornwall, England. It is located within the Aire Point to Carrick Du SSSI, the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Penwith Heritage Coast.
Levant Mine and Beam Engine
Museum
Photo: John Gibson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Levant Mine and Beam Engine is a National Trust property at Trewellard, Pendeen, near St Just, Cornwall, England, UK. Its main attraction is that it has the world's oldest Cornish steam winding engine still working in its original location.
Carn Kenidjack
Peak
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carn Kenidjack is a hill in Tregeseal, Cornwall, UK. It is covered in megaliths including Tregeseal East stone circle. A tale is told that two miners returning home one night witnessed a wrestling match near Carn Kenidjack, which was presided over by the Devil.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Trewellard and Bojewyan.
Trewellard
Village
Photo: Renouk, Public domain.
Trewellard is a small village on the north coast road between St Just and St Ives in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies along the B3306 road which connects St Ives to the A30 road.
Bojewyan
Village
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bojewyan is a settlement on the Penwith Peninsula in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village lies along the B3306 road which runs along the north coast and connects St Ives to St Just.
Carnyorth
Hamlet
Photo: Lewis Clarke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carnyorth is a hamlet in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is approximately one mile south of Pendeen and six miles northwest of Penzance. It is in the civil parish of St Just in Penwith.
Pendeen
- Category: locality
- Location: St Just in Penwith, West Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.1513° or 50° 9′ 5″ northLongitude
-5.6653° or 5° 39′ 55″ westElevation
427 feet (130 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PNEOpen location code
9C2P582M+GVOpenStreetMap ID
node 29170535OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
9883559Wikidata 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”
- Welsh: “Boskaswal Wartha”
- Welsh: “Pendeen”
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