Polgigga

50°03′22″N 5°39′58″W / 50.056°N 5.666°W / 50.056; -5.666

The duck pond and bus stop
The village pond

Polgigga (or Poljigga) is a hamlet in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, on the B3315 Land's End to Penzance road and within the civil parish of St Levan.[1]

Polgigga is 8 miles (13 km) west of Penzance and 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Land's End. The hamlet used to be home to its own winery and a blacksmith's and is now almost entirely residential.[2] The poet and writer Dylan Thomas lived here for a short period in 1936. Nearby settlements include Trebehor, Trethewey and Bottoms.

  1. ^ Land's End 1:25 000 Explorer Map (B2 ed.). Ordnance Survey. 2010. ISBN 978-0-319-24116-5.
  2. ^ "Polgigga" (PDF). Porthcurno.org.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2015.