West Country
Cornwall
South Cornwall

Truro

Truro is a small cathedral city in South Cornwall. It is the administrative capital of the County of Cornwall.
Tap on a place
to explore it
truro.gov.uk
Wikivoyage
Wikipedia
Photo: Tim Green, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Tim Green, CC BY 2.0.
  • Type: City with 20,300 residents
  • Description: city in Cornwall, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Truro civil parish”, “Truro CP”, “Truro, Cornwall”, and “Truru”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Truro Cathedral and Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery.

Church
Photo: tracey maclean, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Truro, Cornwall. It was built between 1880 and 1910 to a Gothic Revival design by John Loughborough Pearson on the site of the parish church of St Mary.

Museum
Photo: Elaine Hamby, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The , formerly known as the Royal Cornwall Museum, is a museum in Truro, England, which holds an extensive mineral collection rooted in 's mining and engineering heritage.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Copyrighted free use.
serves the city of Truro, Cornwall, England. The station is on the Cornish Main Line and is the junction for the Maritime Line to .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St Clement and Playing Place.

Village
Photo: N p holmes, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a civil parish and village in , England, United Kingdom. It is situated southeast of Truro in the valley of the Tresillian River.

Village
Photo: Fred James, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village southwest of Truro, , England. It is to the east of the A39 road. The name derives from Cornish 'plain an gwarry', an open-air performance area used historically for entertainment and instruction.

Village
Photo: Fred James, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Michael Penkivel, sometimes spelt , is a civil parish and village in , , . It is in the valley of the about three miles southeast of Truro.

Truro

Latitude
50.2633° or 50° 15′ 48″ north
Longitude
-5.0518° or 5° 3′ 7″ west
Population
20,300
Elevation
49 feet (15 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB TRU
Open location code
9C2P7W7X+87
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26867377
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2635412
Wiki­data ID
Q180803
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Truro from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Truro” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ترورو”
  • Armenian: “Տրուրո”
  • Asturian: “Truru”
  • Basque: “Truro”
  • Belarusian: “Трура”
  • Bengali: “ত্রুরো”
  • Breton: “Truro”
  • Breton: “Truru”
  • Catalan: “Truro”
  • Cebuano: “Truro”
  • Chinese: “Truro”
  • Chinese: “杜羅”
  • Chinese: “特魯羅”
  • Chinese: “特鲁罗”
  • Cornish: “Truro”
  • Cornish: “Truru”
  • Cornish: “Tryverow”
  • Cornish: “Tryveru”
  • Czech: “Truro”
  • Danish: “Truro”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Truro”
  • Dutch: “Truro”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ترورو”
  • Esperanto: “Truro”
  • Esperanto: “Truru”
  • Estonian: “Truro”
  • Finnish: “Truro”
  • Finnish: “Truru”
  • French: “Truro”
  • Galician: “Truro”
  • Galician: “Truru”
  • Georgian: “ტრურო”
  • German: “Truro”
  • German: “Truru”
  • German: “Tryverow”
  • Greek: “Τρούρο”
  • Gujarati: “ટ્રુરો”
  • Hebrew: “Truro”
  • Hebrew: “טרורו”
  • Hindi: “ट्रुरो”
  • Hungarian: “Truro”
  • Icelandic: “Truro”
  • Icelandic: “Truru”
  • Ido: “Truro”
  • Indonesian: “Truro, Inggris”
  • Indonesian: “Truro”
  • Indonesian: “Truru”
  • Interlingue: “Truro”
  • Irish: “Truro”
  • Irish: “Truru”
  • Italian: “Truro”
  • Italian: “Trurone”
  • Japanese: “トゥルーロ”
  • Japanese: “トルロ”
  • Kannada: “ಟ್ರುರೋ”
  • Korean: “트루로”
  • Kurdish: “Truro”
  • Ladin: “Truro”
  • Latin: “Triuerium”
  • Latin: “Triverium”
  • Latin: “Truro”
  • Latin: “Trurone”
  • Latin: “Truronensis”
  • Latvian: “Truro”
  • Latvian: “Trūro”
  • Lithuanian: “Truras”
  • Malay: “Truro”
  • Manipuri: “ꯇ꯭ꯔꯨꯔꯣ”
  • Manx: “Truro”
  • Manx: “Truru”
  • Marathi: “ट्रुरो”
  • Mazanderani: “ترورو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Truro (Cornwall)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Truro”
  • Northern Sami: “Truru”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Truro”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Truro”
  • Norwegian: “Truro”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Truro”
  • Ossetian: “Труро”
  • Persian: “ترورو”
  • Polish: “Truro”
  • Portuguese: “Truro”
  • Quechua: “Truro”
  • Romanian: “Truro”
  • Russian: “Труро”
  • Russian: “Труру”
  • Sardinian: “Truro”
  • Scots: “Truro”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Truro”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Truru”
  • Serbian: “Труро”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Truro”
  • Silesian: “Truro”
  • Sinhala: “ට්රුරෝ”
  • Slovak: “Truro”
  • Slovenian: “Truro”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ترورو”
  • Spanish: “Truro”
  • Spanish: “Truru”
  • Swedish: “Truro”
  • Tagalog: “Truro”
  • Tamil: “ட்ருரோ”
  • Tamil: “ட்ரூரோ”
  • Telugu: “ట్రూరో”
  • Thai: “ทรูโร”
  • Turkish: “Truro”
  • Ukrainian: “Труро”
  • Urdu: “ٹرورو”
  • Vietnamese: “Truro”
  • Volapük: “Truro”
  • Volapük: “Truru”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Truro”
  • Welsh: “Truro”
  • Welsh: “Truru”
  • Western Panjabi: “ٹرورو”
  • Wu Chinese: “特鲁罗”
  • Yiddish: “טרורא”
  • Yue Chinese: “杜羅”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Truro”.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Ferris Town and Moresk.

South Cornwall: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Falmouth, St Austell, Penryn, and Saltash.

Explore These Curated Destinations

Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.
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 “Truro”. Photo: Tim Green, CC BY 2.0.