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St Ives

St Ives is a seaside town on the north coast of West Cornwall, near . In 2011 its population was 11,226. This fishing village grew up into a seaside resort, and has long attracted artists.
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  • Type: Town with 9,970 residents
  • Description: seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England
  • Also known as: “St Ives, Cornwall” and “St. Ives”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tate St Ives and St Ives railway station.

Art gallery
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is an art gallery in St Ives, , England, exhibiting work by modern British artists with links to the St Ives area. The Tate also took over management of another museum in the town, the , in 1980.

Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station which serves the coastal town of St Ives, Cornwall, England. It was opened in 1877 as the terminus of the last new broad gauge passenger railway to be constructed in the country.

Museum
Photo: Sarah Charlesworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The and Sculpture Garden in St Ives, preserves the 20th-century sculptor Barbara Hepworth's studio and garden much as they were when she lived and worked there.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Carbis Bay and Hayle.

Photo: Vdemedina, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a seaside resort and village in , England. It lies 1 mile southeast of St Ives, on the western coast of , on the Atlantic coast. The South West Coast Path passes above the beach.

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is a small town, civil parish and cargo port in the Penwith district of West Cornwall. The town, whose name is derived from the Cornish heyl, meaning estuary, is situated at the southern end of St Ives Bay on the estuary of the River, approximately 9 mi south-east of the town of St Ives by road.

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is a civil parish and village in , England, United Kingdom. takes its name from Saint Erc, one of the many Irish saints who brought Christianity to Cornwall during the Dark Ages, and is at the old crossing point of the .

St Ives

Latitude
50.2149° or 50° 12′ 54″ north
Longitude
-5.4795° or 5° 28′ 46″ west
Population
9,970
Elevation
272 feet (83 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB IVS
Open location code
9C2P6G7C+X5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 18336960
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2638778
Wiki­data ID
Q724182
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“St Ives” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سانت ايفيس”
  • Armenian: “St Ives”
  • Armenian: “Սենթ Այվս”
  • Armenian: “Սենտ Այվ, Քոռնուոլ”
  • Asturian: “St Ives”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sent-Ayvs”
  • Basque: “Saint Ives”
  • Basque: “St Ives”
  • Bengali: “সেন্ট ইভস”
  • Breton: “Porth Ia”
  • Breton: “St. Yves”
  • Burmese: “စိန့်အိုက်ဗ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Saint Ives”
  • Catalan: “St Ives”
  • Cebuano: “St Ives”
  • Chinese: “St. Ives”
  • Chinese: “圣艾夫斯”
  • Chinese: “聖艾夫斯”
  • Cornish: “Porth Eya”
  • Cornish: “Porth Ia”
  • Cornish: “Porthia”
  • Danish: “St. Ives”
  • Dutch: “St Ives”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سانت ايفيس”
  • Esperanto: “Sankta Ivo”
  • Finnish: “Porth Ia”
  • Finnish: “St Ives”
  • French: “St Ives”
  • German: “St Ives”
  • German: “St. Ives”
  • Greek: “Σεντ Άιβς”
  • Gujarati: “સેન્ટ ઇવ્સ”
  • Hebrew: “סיינט אייבס (קורנוול)”
  • Hebrew: “סיינט אייבס, קורנוול”
  • Hebrew: “סנט אייבס, קורנוול, אנגליה”
  • Hebrew: “סנט אייבס”
  • Irish: “Porth Ia”
  • Irish: “St Ives”
  • Italian: “Saint Ives”
  • Italian: “St Ives”
  • Japanese: “セント・アイヴス”
  • Japanese: “セント・アイヴズ”
  • Japanese: “セント・アイブス”
  • Kannada: “ಸೇಂಟ್ ಐವ್ಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Сент-Айвс”
  • Korean: “세인트아이브스”
  • Ladin: “St Ives (Cornwall)”
  • Ladin: “St Ives”
  • Latin: “Villa Sanctae Iae”
  • Lithuanian: “Sant Ivesas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “St. Ives (Cornwall)”
  • Nauru: “Porth Ia”
  • Nauru: “St Ives”
  • Northern Sami: “Porth Ia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “St Ives”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “St. Ives”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Porth Ia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “St Ives i Cornwall”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “St. Ives i Cornwall”
  • Norwegian: “St. Ives”
  • Ossetian: “Сент-Айвс”
  • Ossetian: “Сент-Ивс”
  • Persian: “سنت ایوس، کورنوال”
  • Polish: “St Ives”
  • Portuguese: “St Ives”
  • Romanian: “St Ives, Cornwall”
  • Romanian: “St Ives”
  • Russian: “Сент-Айвс”
  • Russian: “Сент-Ивс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “St Ives, Cornwall”
  • Slovenian: “St Ives”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سنت ایوس، کورنوال”
  • Spanish: “St Ives”
  • Swedish: “St. Ives, Cornwall”
  • Swedish: “St. Ives”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்ட இவேஸ்”
  • Telugu: “సెయింట్ ఎల్వీస్”
  • Turkish: “St Ives, Cornwall”
  • Ukrainian: “Сент-Айвз (Корнволл)”
  • Ukrainian: “Сент-Айвз (Корнуолл)”
  • Ukrainian: “Сент-Айвз”
  • Urdu: “سینٹ یویس”
  • Volapük: “Porth Ia”
  • Volapük: “St Ives”
  • Welsh: “Porth Ia”
  • Welsh: “St. Ives”

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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 “St Ives”. Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.