Sharrow Beach

Sharrow Beach is a beach in St. John, Cornwall, England. Sharrow Beach is situated nearby to the village Freathy, as well as near the military installation WW2 Heavy Anti-aircraft Gun Battery (site of).

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include HMS Scylla and Scraesdon Fort.

HMS Scylla

Reef

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

HMS Scylla was the last Leander-class frigate built for the Royal Navy. She was the fifth vessel in the Royal Navy to be named after the Sea Monster who devoured the victims of the whirlpool, Charybdis, and was commonly referred to as "Aberdeen's frigate". HMS Scylla is situated 1½ miles south of Sharrow Beach.

Scraesdon Fort

Military installation

Photo: Bill Booth, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Scraesdon Fort, near the village of Antony, is one of several forts in South East Cornwall which formed part of the ring of forts surrounding Plymouth to protect Plymouth Sound and, in particular, the naval dockyard of Devonport from enemy naval attack. Scraesdon Fort is situated 1½ miles north of Sharrow Beach.

All Saints Church, Millbrook

Church

Photo: Ajsmith141, CC BY-SA 4.0.

All Saints Church is a Church of England parish church in Millbrook, Cornwall, England, UK. It was built in 1893–95 and has been Grade II listed since 1987. The war memorial on the edge of the church grounds also became Grade II listed in 2016. All Saints Church, Millbrook is situated 2 miles east of Sharrow Beach.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Freathy and St John.

Freathy

Village

Photo: John Poyser, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Freathy is a beach and coastal settlement on the Rame Peninsula in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Freathy is accessible by the coast road along which runs the South West Coast Path.

St John

Village

Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St John is a coastal civil parish and a village in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, 3 miles south of Saltash and 1.5 miles south-west of Torpoint.

Antony

Village

Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Antony is a village and coastal civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated on the Rame Peninsula about three miles west of Torpoint and has a shop, a pub and a garage. At the 2021 census the population of the parish was 438. Antony is situated 1½ miles north of Sharrow Beach.

Sharrow Beach

Type: Beach
Category: landform
Location: St. John, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.34797° or 50° 20′ 53″ north

Longitude

-4.26023° or 4° 15′ 37″ west

Open location code

9C2Q8PXQ+5W

OpenStreetMap ID

way 225176332

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=beach

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include WW2 Heavy Anti-aircraft Gun Battery (site of) and Chamber Rock.

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