Perranporth
Perranporth is small seaside resort on the north coast of North Cornwall. The village's modern name comes from Porth Peran, which is Cornish for the cove of Saint Piran, the patron saint of Cornwall.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 3,210 residents
- Description: village in Cornwall, the United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Perranporth, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Perranporth and St Michael Mission Church.
Perranporth
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Perranporth Airfield airfield is located 1.5 NM southwest of Perranporth and 6 NM southwest of Newquay, in the village of Trevellas, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Perran Round
Archaeological site
Photo: Alan Simkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bolingey and Goonhavern.
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.
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.
Perrancoombe
Village
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Perrancoombe is a hamlet near Perranzabuloe in Cornwall, England. The name Perrancoombe comes from the Cornish language words Peran or Saint Piran, and komm, meaning 'small valley' or 'dingle'.
Perranporth
- Category: locality
- Location: Perranzabuloe, North Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.3444° or 50° 20′ 40″ northLongitude
-5.1538° or 5° 9′ 14″ westPopulation
3,210Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PNPOpen location code
9C2P8RVW+QFOpenStreetMap ID
node 1600818794OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Perranporth” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “برنبرث”
- Basque: “Perranporth”
- Bulgarian: “Перанпортх”
- Cebuano: “Perranporth”
- Chinese: “佩倫波斯”
- Cornish: “Porthperan”
- Cornish: “Porthpyran”
- Dutch: “Perranporth”
- Egyptian Arabic: “برنبرث”
- French: “Perranporth”
- Irish: “Perranporth”
- Italian: “Perranporth”
- Japanese: “ペランポース”
- Japanese: “ペランポース村”
- Latin: “Perranporth”
- Persian: “پرنپورت”
- Polish: “Perranporth”
- Russian: “Перранпорт”
- Spanish: “Perranporth”
- Swedish: “Perranporth”
- Welsh: “Perranporth”
- Welsh: “Porthperan”
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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 “Perranporth”. Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.