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Lelant Station - St Ives
...Cornwall, and they were widely used in the Middle Ages to mark the way to holy places, although sometimes they were simple waymarkers at the junctions of ancient paths or even simply boundary markers....
St Ives Town Trail
...Cornwall is granite, St Ives stands on a rock known as blue elvan, or greenstone, a hard igneous rock which is difficult to work with. For this reason, many of the buildings in the town are of granite...
Clodgy Point
...Cornwall's national bird now making a comeback since a nesting pair appeared on The Lizard in 2001, more than half a century after the last pair had successfully bred in Cornwall. On the far sid...
Carbis Bay to St Ives
...Cornwall on the tourist map at the end of the nineteenth century. As well as this hotel, he designed other iconic buildings in all the major coastal resorts around the county, including King Arthur&#x...
Falmouth Town Station - Falmouth Packet
...Cornwall Polytechnic Society. Fish Strand Quay was built in 1790 for the landing and selling of fish. It was near here that the news of Nelson's death and the victory at Trafalgar was brought as...
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
...cape to France! Look out for seals on the rocks and wildfowl and waterbirds in the wetlands. An excellent walk for children, who will love the sandy beaches, which are safe for bathing and dog-friendl...
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...
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
The Merry Maidens A fascinating jaunt through an ancient ceremonial landscape littered with stone circles and other monuments, some of them dating back to the Stone Age. From the highest ground there ...
Trevelgue Head & Whipsiderry
...caped, only to be captured by a local king who tried to marry her to his son. Rejecting the plan, she escaped to the coast and fled on a ship, which brought her to Trevelgue Head. The vengeful king ca...
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...
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...
Tregurrian & Trevarrian
...Cornwall, including fish from St Ives, pasta made from wheat grown in Padstow, eggs from a traditional breed of hen in Liskeard, cheese from Bude, cream from Redruth and mussels from St Austell. Even ...
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
...cape dotted with clusters of picturesque hamlets and decorated with iconic chalk carvings such as Osmington's White Horse. Sculpted in 1808, this carving depicts George III, who was a regular vis...

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