Traditional county: Cornwall · Region: South West
Explore Twelveheads, Cornwall with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Twelveheads 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.
| Place | Twelveheads |
| Traditional County | Cornwall |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 50.238350 |
| Longitude | -5.143041 |
| Place Type | Village |
Twelveheads, a village in Cornwall, is a place where the land remembers its industrious past. It lies 5.9 km east of Redruth (from Redruth: bearing 85°T, OS grid SW 759 423), and is situated north of Cusgarne village. The air here, particularly on a late autumn afternoon, can carry a certain mineral tang, a ghost of the tin and copper that once flowed through this landscape like veins of ore. The houses, often built from local stone, seem to hunker down against the Cornish wind, their slate roofs catching the low sun in a display of muted, earthy colours. The quiet persistence of the place, a quality not unlike the slow work of water carving stone, lends Twelveheads a subtle, enduring charm. Even now, the fields, though largely given over to pasture, retain a certain ruggedness, a testament to generations who wrestled sustenance from this demanding soil.
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Explore Twelveheads, 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: 50.238350, -5.143041. 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 | June 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. |