Lelant

Lelant
Village
The railway station and old station building. The building is now a private house.
Lelant is located in Cornwall
Lelant
Lelant
Location within Cornwall
OS grid referenceSW544372
• London300 mi (480 km) ENE
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townST. IVES
Postcode districtTR26
Dialling code01736
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireCornwall
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Cornwall
50°11′02″N 5°26′24″W / 50.184°N 5.440°W / 50.184; -5.440

Lelant (Cornish: Lannanta[1]) or Uny Lelant is a village in the civil parish of St Ives in, west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on the west side of the Hayle Estuary, about 2+12 miles (4.0 km) southeast of St Ives and one mile (1.6 km) west of Hayle.[2] The village is part of the Lelant and Carbis Bay ward on Cornwall Council,[3] and also the St Ives Parliamentary constituency. The birth, marriage, and death registration district is Penzance.[4] Its population at the 2011 census was 3,892[5] The South West Coast Path, which follows the coast of south west England from Somerset to Dorset passes through Lelant, along the estuary and above Porth Kidney Sands.[2]

  1. ^ "The Cornish Language - Cornwall Council". Archived from the original on 10 May 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  2. ^ a b Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7
  3. ^ "Cornwall Council Interactive Map". Cornwall Council. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  4. ^ Adams, Maxwell. "Lelant Administration". Lelant website. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
  5. ^ "Ward population for 2015 census". Retrieved 7 February 2015.