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Altarnun

Altarnun is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

Altarnun
Altarnun · Harrie Gielen
The place

Altarnun is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies 7 miles (11 km) west of Launceston on the north-eastern edge of Bodmin Moor at grid reference SX 223 811.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Altarnun

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    St Nonna's Church, Altarnun

    St Nonna's Church, also known as the Cathedral of the Moors, is the second largest church on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, located in the village of Altarnun. The dedication is to Saint Non or Nonna, who was the mother of St David.

    200 m · church in Altarnun, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Altarnun

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 120 km · Bristol (BRS), 153 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 240 km
  • Cardiff → Altarnun
    135 km · quickest by road, 3h 49m · £23–31
  • Bristol → Altarnun
    164 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £19–25
  • London → Altarnun
    323 km · quickest by road, 5h 40m · £33–43
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Altarnun

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Altarnun. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    65 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    226 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    455 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    555 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    588 km

If you know how people move in Altarnun – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Altarnun

  • Laneastvillage and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK2.9 km
  • Trewenvillage and civil parish near Launceston, in Cornwall, England, UK3.7 km
  • St Clethervillage in Cornwall, UK3.4 km
  • Polyphantvillage in Cornwall, England, UK3.9 km
  • Plushahamlet in Cornwall, England, UK3 km
  • South Carnehamlet in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom1.9 km