Polperro
Polperro is a large village, civil parish, and fishing harbour within the Polperro Heritage Coastline in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Its population is around 1,554.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,210 residents
- Description: village in Cornwall, England, UK
- Also known as: “Lansallos” and “Polperro, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Polperro Heritage Museum Of Smuggling & Fishing and Polperro Primary Academy.
Polperro Primary Academy
School
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Polperro Primary Academy is a school.
Net Loft
Building
Photo: Jarkeld, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Net Loft is a historic Grade II listed building located atop Peak Rock at the mouth of Polperro Harbour in Cornwall, England. Originally serving as a storage facility for fishing nets and sails, it occupies what is believed to have been the site of Polperro’s 19th‑century chapel, built for local fishermen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barcelona and Lansallos.
Lansallos
Village
Photo: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lansallos is a village in the civil parish of Polperro in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated between Polruan and Polperro about 5 miles east of Fowey in Liskeard Registration District. Lansallos is situated 2 miles west of Polperro.
Windsor
Hamlet
Windsor is a hamlet in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is located half-a-mile east of Lansallos village.
Polperro
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Lansallos, South Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.3315° or 50° 19′ 53″ northLongitude
-4.519° or 4° 31′ 9″ westPopulation
1,210Elevation
125 feet (38 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PLPOpen location code
9C2Q8FJJ+J9OpenStreetMap ID
node 322056165OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Polperro” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلبريو”
- Basque: “Polperro”
- Basque: “Porthpyra”
- Cebuano: “Polperro”
- Chinese: “波尔佩罗”
- Chinese: “波爾佩羅”
- Cornish: “Porthpyra”
- Czech: “Polperro”
- Dutch: “Polperro”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلبريو”
- French: “Polperro”
- German: “Polperro”
- Irish: “Polperro”
- Italian: “Polperro”
- Japanese: “ポルペロ”
- Latin: “Polperro”
- Persian: “پلپرو”
- Polish: “Polperro”
- Russian: “Полперро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Polperro”
- Silesian: “Polperro”
- Slovenian: “Polperro”
- Spanish: “Polperro”
- Swedish: “Polperro”
- Turkish: “Polperro”
- Welsh: “Polperro”
- Welsh: “Porthpyra”
- “Polperro”
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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 Wikipedia page “Polperro”. Photo: ThinkingGuy, CC BY-SA 4.0.