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St Adamnan’s Church, Lonan

St Adamnan's Church is the former parish church of Lonan in the . The church is situated in an isolated position, surrounded by open farmland on the eastern coast of the island, between and Baldrine.
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Photo: John Radcliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Anglican
  • Description: church in Lonan, Isle of Man
  • Also known as: “Old Kirk Lonan”, “Saint Adamnan’s Church”, and “St. Adamnan’s Church, Lonan”
  • Address: Road of the Middle Farm, Baldrine

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Little Isabella and Sea Lion Rocks railway station.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Groudle Glen Water Wheel unofficially known by the sobriquet of is a rustic water wheel, situated in on the , that was originally built in 1893 with the arrival of the Manx Electric Railway to the glen. is situated 1½ km southwest of St Adamnan’s Church, Lonan.

Railway stop
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Sea Lion Rocks is a railway station and outer terminus of the Groudle Glen Railway in the . It served as the outer terminus from 1896 until 1939 and again from 1992 to date. is situated 1 km south of St Adamnan’s Church, Lonan.

Railway stop
Photo: Dr Neil Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an intermediate request stop on the east coast route of the Manx Electric Railway on the Isle of Man. is situated 1 km west of St Adamnan’s Church, Lonan.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Groudle Glen and Ballabeg.

Locality
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Groudle, or , a glen on the outskirts of on the , is formed in a valley leading to the sea at the small port of the same name.

Locality
Photo: Adie Jackson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
There are about eight small places on the with the name . The name derives from the Manx Balley Beg which means small homestead; although the spelling is different, it is pronounced approximately the same as the English name. is situated 3 km north of St Adamnan’s Church, Lonan.

Village
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is a large village in the parish of on the . It is at the north end of Douglas Bay. Administratively a district, it has the second largest population of settlements on the island, after , with which it forms a conurbation. is situated 3 km southwest of St Adamnan’s Church, Lonan.

St Adamnan’s Church, Lonan

Latitude
54.18602° or 54° 11′ 10″ north
Longitude
-4.41149° or 4° 24′ 41″ west
Open location code
9C6Q5HPQ+CC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 160506184
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­church
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­anglican
Wiki­data ID
Q7586691
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to German—“St Adamnan’s Church, Lonan” goes by many names.

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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 “St Adamnan’s Church, Lonan”. Photo: John Radcliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.