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Lanteglos
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Also known as Lanteglos CP, Lanteglos civil parish, Llanteglos, Cormwall, Llanteglos-by-Fowey, Lanteglos by Fowey

Lanteglos (, meaning church valley) is a coastal civil parish in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is on the east side of the tidal estuary of the River Fowey which separates it from the town and civil parish of Fowey. The South West Coast Path runs along the southern coasts of the parish and much of the southern part of the parish lies in the Polruan to Polperro Site of Special Scientific Interest managed by the National Trust.

Key facts

UK place.country
England
UK place.official_name
Lanteglos
UK place.cornish_name
Nanseglos
UK place.region
South West England
UK place.os_grid_reference
SX1453
UK place.population
944
UK place.population_ref
(2011 Census including Bodinnick)
UK place.civil_parish
Lanteglos
UK place.unitary_england
Cornwall
UK place.lieutenancy_england
Cornwall
UK place.constituency_westminster
South East Cornwall
UK place.post_town
FOWEY
UK place.postcode_area
PL
UK place.postcode_district
PL23
UK place.dial_code
01726
UK place.static_image_2_name
Lanteglos Highway - geograph.org.uk - 217252.jpg
UK place.static_image_2_caption
Lanteglos Highway
UK place.static_image_name
Lanteglos church - geograph.org.uk - 1552405.jpg

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  • Geography
  • Parish church
  • Historic estates
  • Cornish wrestling
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Lanteglos (, meaning church valley) is a coastal civil parish in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is on the east side of the tidal estuary of the River Fowey which separates it from the town and civil parish of Fowey. The South West Coast Path runs along the southern coasts of the parish and much of the southern part of the parish lies in the Polruan to Polperro Site of Special Scientific Interest managed by the National Trust.

==Geography== To the north, Lanteglos-by-Fowey is bounded by the parish of St Veep, to the east by the parish of Polperro, and to the south by the sea. The parish is in the Liskeard Registration District and the population in the 2001 and 2011 census was 994. Penpol Creek forms part of the northern boundary. The parish church of Saint Wyllow is at Churchtown hamlet () just over a mile (2 km) to the south. St Saviour church (a chapel-of-ease of the parish church) is in Polruan, the largest settlement in the parish.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lanteglos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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