Carbis Bay
Overview
Carbis Bay is a village and seaside resort
Seaside resort
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in Cornwall
Cornwall
Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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. It lies one mile SE of St Ives
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial...
on the west side of St Ives Bay
St Ives Bay
St Ives Bay is a bay on the Atlantic coast of north-west Cornwall in the United Kingdom. It is in the form of a shallow crescent, some 4 miles or 6 km across, between St Ives in the west and Godrevy Head in the east....
on the Atlantic
Atlantic Ocean
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coast.
Carbis Bay is almost contiguous with the town of St Ives and is in St Ives civil parish, which encompasses Carbis Bay, Lelant, Halsetown and St Ives and is run by St Ives Town Council.
