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Zennor

Zennor is a small village between and in West Cornwall, within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Antiquities include the megalithic burial chambers Zennor Quoit and Sperris Quoit.
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  • Type: Village with 196 residents
  • Description: civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Zennor civil parish”, “Zennor CP”, and “Zennor, Cornwall”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Zennor Quoit and Pendour Cove.

is a ruined megalithic burial chamber or dolmen, located on a moor about a mile east of the village of Zennor, , England, UK. It dates to 2500–1500 BC.

Beach
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is a beach in west , England, . It is about 1 mile northwest of the village of Zennor, and immediately to the west of Zennor Head. The name originates from the Cornish 'pen' and 'dour'…

Beach
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is a beach in , . It is about 1 mile northwest of the village of Zennor, and immediately to the west of . The name of this cove is from the Cornish 'veor' meaning large or great.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Boswednack and Bodrifty.

Hamlet
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet in the parish of Zennor near the north coast of the Penwith peninsula in , England, United Kingdom. It is located along the B3306 road southwest of Zennor.

Hamlet
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is the modern name of an Iron Age village, now in ruins, in , England, United Kingdom. It is 700 yards west of Mulfra Hill in Penwith District, 3 miles northwest of and 1.5 miles southwest of , on the high ground of the watershed between the Atlantic and the English Channel. is situated 2 miles south of Zennor.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet in , , , 3 miles south-west of at Ordnance Survey grid reference SW 495 365. According to the Post Office the 2011 census population was included in the civil parish of . is situated 3 miles southeast of Zennor.

Zennor

Latitude
50.1919° or 50° 11′ 31″ north
Longitude
-5.5674° or 5° 34′ 3″ west
Population
196
Elevation
358 feet (109 metres)
Open location code
9C2P5CRM+Q2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29171765
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2633324
Wiki­data ID
Q189654
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Zennor” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “زنر”
  • Basque: “Pluw Senar”
  • Basque: “Zennor”
  • Cebuano: “Zennor”
  • Chinese: “Zennor”
  • Cornish: “Pluw Senar”
  • Cornish: “Pluwsenar”
  • Cornish: “Sen Senar”
  • Dutch: “Zennor”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “زنر”
  • French: “Zennor”
  • German: “Zennor”
  • Greek: “Εγκλοσενάρ”
  • Greek: “Ζένορ”
  • Irish: “Pluw Senar”
  • Italian: “Zennor”
  • Japanese: “ゼナー”
  • Ladin: “Zennor”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Zennor”
  • Persian: “زنور”
  • Polish: “Zennor”
  • Scots: “Zennor”
  • Swedish: “Zennor”
  • Welsh: “Pluw Senar”
  • Welsh: “Zennor”
  • “Zennor”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Zennor”. Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.