Landewednack ( kw, Lanndewynnek) is a
civil parish
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and a
hamlet
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in
Cornwall
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, England, United Kingdom. The hamlet is situated approximately ten miles (16 km) south of
Helston
Helston ( kw, Hellys) is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated at the northern end of the Lizard Peninsula approximately east of Penzance and south-west of Falmouth.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map ...
.
[Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 ''Land's End'' ]
Landewednack is the most southerly parish on the British mainland.
[GENUKI website; Landewednack]
retrieved April 2010 The parish church, dedicated to St Winwallow, is the most southerly in
England
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and is built of local
serpentine stone (see
St Wynwallow's Church, Landewednack). Caerthillian
cove
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and
beach
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sits on the western border of the parish.
The hamlet of Landewednack is now part of
Lizard village.
Twinning
Landewednack is
twinned with
Landevennec (Landevenneg) in
Brittany
Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period ...
, France.
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Civil parishes in Cornwall
Hamlets in Cornwall
Lizard Peninsula
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