Porth Kidney Sands

Porth Kidney Sands is a beach in Hayle, West Cornwall, England. Porth Kidney Sands is situated nearby to the historic site WW2 Minefield (site of), as well as near St Uny’s Church, Lelant.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Carbis Bay railway station and Lelant railway station.

Carbis Bay railway station

Railway station

Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Carbis Bay railway station is on the St Ives Bay Line in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom and serves the village and beach of Carbis Bay, a community that only adopted this name after the arrival of the railway in 1877. Carbis Bay railway station is situated 1 mile west of Porth Kidney Sands.

Lelant railway station

Railway station

Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lelant railway station is on the waterfront of the Hayle estuary below the village of Lelant in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is 322 miles 6 chains from London Paddington, measured via St Erth and Box, on the St Ives Bay Line between Lelant Saltings and Carbis Bay. Lelant railway station is situated 1 mile southeast of Porth Kidney Sands.

St Uny’s Church, Lelant

Church

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St Uny Church, Lelant, is the Church of England parish church of Lelant, Cornwall, England. It is dedicated to Saint Uny who is also the patron saint of Redruth. It is a Grade I listed building. St Uny’s Church, Lelant is situated 3,000 feet southeast of Porth Kidney Sands.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include The Towans and Lelant.

The Towans

Hamlet

Towan is found in many placenames in Cornwall. However, The Towans usually refers to the three-mile stretch of coastal dunes which extends north-east from the estuary of the River Hayle to Gwithian beach with a midpoint near Upton.

Lelant

Village

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Lelant or Uny Lelant is a village in the civil parish of St Ives in, west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on the west side of the Hayle Estuary, about 2+1⁄2 miles southeast of St Ives and one mile west of Hayle.

Carbis Bay

Photo: Vdemedina, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Carbis Bay is a seaside resort and village in Cornwall, England. It lies 1 mile southeast of St Ives, on the western coast of St Ives Bay, on the Atlantic coast. The South West Coast Path passes above the beach.

Porth Kidney Sands

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

50.19501° or 50° 11′ 42″ north

Longitude

-5.44452° or 5° 26′ 40″ west

Open location code

9C2P5HW4+25

OpenStreetMap ID

way 304055818

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=beach

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include WW2 Minefield (site of) and Escape to the Sauna.

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