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Lawhitton

Lawhitton is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

Lawhitton
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The place

Lawhitton is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated two miles (3 km) south-west of Launceston and half-a-mile west of Cornwall's border with Devon at the River Tamar. The village is the main settlement in the civil parish of Lawhitton Rural, which was created in 1894 from the part of the old parish of Lawhitton that lay outside the borough boundaries of Launceston. The border with Devon forms the parish's eastern boundary; to the north, it is bounded by St Thomas by Launceston parish; to the west by Launceston parish; and to the south by Lezant parish. At the 2021 census the population of the parish was 301.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lawhitton

4 places 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
    Launceston Castle

    Launceston Castle is located in the town of Launceston, Cornwall, England. It was probably built by Robert the Count of Mortain after 1068, and initially comprised an earthwork and timber castle with a large motte in one corner.

    3.4 km · castle in the town of Launceston, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Mary Magdalene

    St Mary Magdalene's Church, Launceston is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Launceston, Cornwall. It is unusual for its carvings; the entire exterior of the original part of the church is built of carved granite blocks.

    3.3 km · church in Launceston, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Nonna

    The Church of St Nonna is a redundant church in Bradstone, Devon, England that was built in the 12th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.9 km · church in Bradstone, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Kelly House, Devon

    Kelly House is a Grade I listed country house and estate located in the village of Kelly, in Devon, England. The estate has been the property of the Kelly family since approximately 1100.

    4 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Kelly, West Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Lawhitton

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 111 km · Bristol (BRS), 141 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 241 km
  • Cardiff → Lawhitton
    125 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £22–29
  • Bristol → Lawhitton
    153 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £18–23
  • London → Lawhitton
    310 km · quickest by road, 4h 42m · £32–42
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Lawhitton

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 Lawhitton. 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

    67 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    213 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    464 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    554 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    588 km

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Around it

Next door to Lawhitton

  • Launcestontown, ancient borough, and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK2.8 km
  • Lezantcivil parish and village in east Cornwall, England3.6 km
  • Duntertonvillage and civil parish in Devon, England3.6 km
  • Bradstonevillage and civil parish in Devon, United Kingdom2.9 km
  • Newportsuburb of Launceston, Cornwall, England, UK4 km
  • Launceston Steam Railwaynarrow gauge railway operating from the town of Launceston, Cornwall3.8 km