West Lanyon Quoit

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West Lanyon Quoit is a chambered tomb in Cornwall. It is one of 15 chambered tombs the Albion Guide maps in the county. It sits inside Cornwall National Landscape National Landscape.

For more of the same, Chûn Castle and Mulfra Quoit are close by. The nearest railway station is Penzance, 6.1 km to the south-east.

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