Lanteglos Highway

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Lanteglos Highway
Cornwall
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Lanteglos Highway
Location
Grid reference: SX146529
Location: 50°20’51"N, 4°36’25"W
Data
Post town: Fowey
Postcode: PL23
Dialling code: 01726
Local Government
Council: Cornwall
Parliamentary
constituency:
South East Cornwall

Lanteglos Highway is a little village in Cornwall, within a wider parish named 'Lanteglos-by-Fowey'.

The village is close to the south coast of the county, east of the tidal estuary of the River Fowey: the 'Highway' is the road leading down to river at Bodinnick, from which a car ferry crosses to Fowey.

The name 'Lanteglos' appears to be from the Cornish name Nant Eglos, meaning 'church valley' (or 'church stream'. The parish's church is in a hamlet to the south.