Traditional county: Cornwall · Region: South West
Explore Minions, Cornwall with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Minions 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 Minions, 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.
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| Place | Minions |
| Traditional County | Cornwall |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 50.515538 |
| Longitude | -4.452083 |
| Place Type | Village |
Minions commands the high, windswept reaches of Bodmin Moor, where the air tastes of salt-crusted granite and ancient, unyielding silence. It lies 4.2 miles north of Liskeard (from Liskeard: bearing 8°T, OS grid SX 262 712), and is situated north of Crow's Nest village. The landscape around Minions bears the skeletal remains of a vanished industry, where the stark, vertical form of Houseman’s Engine House marks the horizon like a weathered finger pointing toward the clouds. Weathered stone defines the character of the ground here, particularly where the prehistoric granite monoliths of The Hurlers rise from the heather, their grey surfaces catching a pale, shifting light that seems to hold the weight of centuries. To the east, the hulking mass of Caradon Hill anchors the skyline, its slopes offering a vast, panoramic perspective of the rugged Cornish interior. The earth beneath these moorland paths holds the memory of deep shafts and discarded ore, a testament to the strenuous labour that once defined the life of the local people. Solitude defines the experience of walking these paths, where the wind carries no hum of modernity, only the rhythmic calls of skylarks ascending into the vast, open canopy of the sky. This high, exposed plateau remains a place where the clarity of the atmosphere strips away all artifice, leaving the observer alone with the raw, elemental beauty of the moor.
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Explore Minions, 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: 50.515538, -4.452083. 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 | September 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. |