Traditional county: Cornwall · Region: South West
Explore Great Work, Cornwall with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Great Work map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Great Work, Cornwall, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
Drag the map to pan to any area of Cornwall or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Great Work and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.
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| Place | Great Work |
| Traditional County | Cornwall |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 50.126938 |
| Longitude | -5.371066 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Great Work commands a rugged dignity born from the hard, subterranean toil that once defined this Cornish landscape. It lies 4.5 miles east of Marazion (from Marazion: bearing 87°T, OS grid SW 591 306), and is situated north-north-west of Tresowes Green village. Granite outcrops rise with a stoic permanence from the earth, grounding the horizon in a palette of grey and heather-streaked moss. To the north, the slopes of Godolphin Hill catch the pale, Atlantic light, casting long shadows that seem to stretch back toward an era of industrious extraction. A solitary chimney, an evocative relic of the mining age, stands as a sentinel 0.3 miles to the east-north-east, its masonry softened by the persistent salt-laden winds. The surrounding terrain remains part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, a vast world heritage site that preserves the skeleton of a vanished industrial power. Great Work retains a quiet, austere character, where the silence of the high ground is broken only by the sudden, sharp cry of a circling buzzard. This place exists as a testament to the endurance of stone and the fading echoes of the men who once sought fortune beneath its surface.
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Explore Great Work, Cornwall, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 50.126938, -5.371066. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |