WW2 Minefield (site of)

WW2 Minefield (site of) is a historic site in Hayle, West Cornwall, England. WW2 Minefield (site of) is situated near the garden Cliff Bungalows, as well as near the hamlet The Towans.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: St Uny’s Church, Lelant and Lelant railway station.

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 2,600 feet south of WW2 Minefield (site of).

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 4,200 feet south of WW2 Minefield (site of).

Hayle railway station

Railway station

Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Hayle railway station serves the small town of Hayle, Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is on the Cornish Main Line 7 miles north-east of Penzance, 319 miles 31 chains from the zero point at London Paddington measured via Box and Plymouth Millbay. Hayle railway station is situated 1 mile southeast of WW2 Minefield (site of).

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.

Phillack

Village

Photo: Ivan Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Phillack is a village in the parish of Hayle, in west Cornwall, England. It is about one mile northeast of Hayle and half-a-mile inland from St Ives Bay on Cornwall's Atlantic Ocean coast.

WW2 Minefield (site of)

Type: Historic site
Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
Location: Hayle, West Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.19538° or 50° 11′ 43″ north

Longitude

-5.43287° or 5° 25′ 58″ west

Open location code

9C2P5HW8+5V

OpenStreetMap ID

way 961281323

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=yes

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Cliff Bungalows and Escape to the Sauna.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: WW2 Pillbox and The Bluff Inn.

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