Drift, Cornwall

Drift, Cornwall

Coordinates: 50°06′05″N 5°34′58″W / 50.10125°N 5.58265°W / 50.10125; -5.58265

Drift is a village in west Cornwall, United Kingdom.

The village is in the civil parish of Sancreed approximately two miles (3 km) west of Penzance and six miles from Land's End at Drift is home to a pair of standing megaliths called the 'Triganeeris Sisters' or 'Drift Stones'. [1][2] Drift Reservoir is immediately north of the village.

References

  1. ^ http://www.cornwallinfocus.co.uk/villages/drift.php
  2. ^ http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6046

External links

grid reference SW 439 285Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End ISBN 9780319231487.




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