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Holywell St Piran Walk
...Cornwall's national saint, is said to have built his first small chapel on a rocky outcrop on Perranporth Beach which still bears the name Chapel Rock. Although some of the building was still vis...
Penzance to Mousehole
...Cornwall's only promenade,  to Wherry Town. Here in 1778 a mineshaft was sunk below the high tide mark, with a stone breakwater topped by a timber turret to protect it from the waves. In 1791 a ...
Portmellon & Bodrugan's Leap
...Cornwall, where pilchards were caught using long nets, and it was a more important fishing centre than the neighbouring village of Mevagissey until the eighteenth-century introduction of longer drift ...
Cadgwith and Poltesco
...Cornwall to support Christianity, which was under threat from the aggressive Anglo Saxon pagans who invaded after the departure of the Romans in the fifth century AD. Also known as St Rumon, he came f...
Beeny Cliff & Pentargon Falls
...Cornwall, containing about 5% of the UK's entire population. The tall straggly oak woodland of Minster Wood, with its understorey of hazel and a few holly trees, suggests that it has been growing...
Tresmorn & St Gennys
...Cornwall coastline, where the high promontories gave a good view across land and sea and were easy to defend because of their shape. Heading abruptly east with the Coast Path, stay with it as it head...
The Merry Maidens
...Cornwall, the early Christian movement of the fifth and sixth centuries is thought to have adopted the old pagan sites and symbols. They associated them with the rites of the new religion, in order to...
Trevelgue Head & Whipsiderry
...Cornwall and holds eight bells. According to Arthurian legend, St Columba the Virgin was visited in a dream by a white dove representing the Holy Spirit and as a result she refused to accompany her pa...
Estuaries and Ferries
...Cornwall Fal River Ferries - St Mawes Ferry 01326 741194 www.falriver.co.uk/ferries/st-mawes-ferry [email protected] The Ferry service runs all year round 7 days a week, twice hourly during summer...
Things to do
...Cornwall’s tin mining history, hunt for fossils on Dorset’s ancient Jurassic Coast and discover forts, castles and historic country houses along the way.  Get even closer to nature with a visit to our...
Padstow and Prideaux Place
...Cornwall. In early times, sources of water were highly prized, especially by travellers, and the Celts and Roman ascribed healing properties to their springs and wells. A few centuries later, saints a...
Boscastle Farm Shop - Boscastle & Forrabury
...Cornwall coast. There has long been a harbour here. The first record dates from Elizabethan times but it almost certainly pre-dates this time. During the 1800s in particular this was an important harb...
Boscastle Farm Shop - Minster Church
...Cornwall. Descend to the footbridge. Do not cross, but continue along the riverside to the road bridge. Here in Boscastle is a range of general shops, refreshments, newsagent, Post Office, toilets, ...
Smugglers Inn - Osmington and Osmington Mills
...Cornwall. There was even some trade with Europe, with bronze being imported while woollen goods and hunting dogs were exported. In AD 43 the Romans arrived, making good use of the Ridgeway as they Rom...
Talland Bay from Polperro
...Cornwall. The most common ones are the wayside crosses, which stand at the side of roads, trackways and paths. They once marked the route to the parish church, although sometimes it was to a pilgrimag...
Kynance Cove
...Cornwall. Other visitors followed the Queen's example and Kynance Cove became a very popular tourist destination. Among the Victorian visitors was 'Water Babies' author Charles Kingsley...
Rôskestal & Bosistow
...Cornwall, and the fragments of at least 200 more. Usually these pointed the way to holy sites, such as shrines, wells, chapels and churches (see the Lankelly & Menabilly Walk). St Levan was bo...
Padstow and Stepper Point Walk
...Cornwall. In early times, sources of water were highly prized, especially by travellers, and the Celts and Roman ascribed healing properties to their springs and wells, and saints arriving by sea a fe...
Pentire Point & The Rumps
...Cornwall's gems, with rocks, sand, surf, cliffs and a little tumbling waterfall. if the weather is fine it is the perfect spot for a picnic. At Lundy Beach, you leave the Coast Path to take the p...
Pengersick & St Germoe
...Cornwall, and their exploits gave rise to many a legend. The most famous of these was the political wrangle between King John of Portugal and Henry VIII of England caused by events on the coast nearby...

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