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Pentire Head


Coordinates: 50°35′02″N 4°55′08″W / 50.584°N 4.919°W / 50.584; -4.919

Pentire Head (Cornish: Penn Tir, meaning "headland") (grid reference SW934802) is a headland and peninsula on the Atlantic coast in North Cornwall, England, UK and is about one mile square. The headland projects north-west with Pentire Point at its north-west corner and The Rumps promontory at its north-east corner.

The origin of the name is from Cornish penn (head) and tir (land): another headland with the name Pentire is further west near .

Pentire Point and Stepper Point stand at either side of the mouth of the River Camel estuary (Pentire to the north-east, Stepper to the south-west). To the south of Pentire Point is the small seaside resort of Polzeath. The coastline around the headland is owned by the National Trust, although the bulk of the headland itself is let to Pentire Farm.


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