Gorran Haven is a fishing village on the south coast of 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 is situated approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Mevagissey

Mevagissey

Mevagissey is a village, fishing port and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately five miles south of St Austell....

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The village lies in a cove between two sandy beaches. Vault Beach

Vault Beach

Vault Beach is situated on the south coast of Cornwall near Mevagissey. The beach consists mainly of shingle but does have some sand at low tide. Car parking is available in Gorran Haven and Lamledra which are both some distance from the beach. Dogs are banned on the beach from Easter Day to...

 (also known as Bow beach) is south of Gorran Haven and Great Perhaver Beach is to the north.

Notable residents

The geologist Charles William Peach

Charles William Peach

Charles William Peach was a British naturalist and geologist.-Biography:He was born at Wansford, Cambridgeshire; his father at the time was a saddler and harness-maker, and afterwards became an innkeeper, farming about eighty acres of land...

 worked in the area and there is a plaque to his memory in the village. His son Ben Peach

Ben Peach

Benjamin Neeve Peach, FRS was a British geologist.He was born at Gorran Haven in Cornwall to Charles William Peach, an amateur British naturalist and geologist. Ben was educated at the Royal School of Mines in London and then joined the Geological Survey in 1862 as a geologist, moving to the...

was born in Gorran Haven.