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Crackington Haven ((コーンウォール語:Porthkragen),〔(Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) ) : (List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel ). Cornish Language Partnership.〕 meaning "cove of the little crag") is a coastal village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is in the civil parish of St Gennys at at the head of a cove on the Atlantic coast. The village is seven miles (11 km) south-southwest of Bude and four miles (7 km) north-northeast of Boscastle.〔Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 190 ''Bude & Clovelly'' ISBN 978-0-319-23145-6〕 Middle Crackington and Higher Crackington are associated settlements. They are situated on the hill southeast of Crackington Haven, half-a-mile and one mile distant respectively. ==Geography== Crackington Haven is popular with campers, walkers and geology students. The surrounding cliffs are well known for their visible folded sedimentary rock formations. The village gives its name to the Crackington formation, a sequence of Carboniferous sandstones and grey shales.〔() Dartmoor National Park Authority information sheet〕 The village has a small shop, two tea rooms and a pub called the Coombe Barton Inn in a building which was originally the house of the manager of a local slate quarry. Crackington Haven has a stony foreshore but a sandy beach is revealed at low water. There are toilet facilities near the beach and lifeguard cover in the summer. Immediately north of the beach is Pencarrow Point and a few hundred yards south is Cambeak headland (between Tremoutha Haven and Cam Strand); the clifftop here is 328 ft.〔Richards, Mark (1974) ''Walking the North Cornwall Coastal Footpath''. Gloucester: Thornhill Press; pp. 36-37〕 Cambeak is derived from Old Cornish and means "crooked point".〔 Weatherhill, Craig (2009). ''A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names''. Westport, Co. Mayo: Evertype. ISBN 9781904808220; p. 8〕 One mile south of Crackington Haven, High Cliff rises to with a sheer drop to the rocky foreshore.〔Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 190 ''Bude & Clovelly'' ISBN 978-0-319-23145-6〕 It is Cornwall's highest cliff and is also classified as southern Britain's highest sheer-drop cliff (Great Hangman in Devon has a cliff face of .〔Richards, Mark (1974) ''Walking the North Cornwall Coastal Footpath''. Gloucester: Thornhill Press ISBN 0-904110-12-5; pp. 36-37〕 Crackington Haven lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crackington Haven」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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