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Church, pubs, good base for explorations.
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I imagine it is very busy in season.
In a nutshell
Church, pub, plain-an-gwarry...and more.
leics Says: ...and look at the architecture.The church porch is an excellent example of Medieval twiddliness.Don't miss the little house right next to the churchyard. It is clearly very old indeed, almost certainly dating from the early 1300s.The Kings Arm pub also dates from that...
leics Says: Make sure you have a look at this place, because it's one of the best examples left of an uniquely Cornish custom.These 'playing-places' were created in Medieval times for the performance of Mystery plays, Miracle plays, meetings, sports and so on and so forth. They consist...
leics Says: This is a fascinating church, dating from the 1300s and set on a very ancient holy site from almost a millennium earlier.It i the only church I have seen where the interior plasterwork has been removed (in Victorian times) and the bare stones pointed with a mixture of pitch...
Outdoor Theatre, Beach, Telecommunication Museum
davidcross Says: Long title? - yes and quite a long way too -either a car or change buses in Penzance. The outdoor theatre is the Minack. I've not been to a show there but its reputation is phenomenal and its setting, which I do know, leaves nothing to be desired.The beach is Porthcurno -...
davidcross Says: I was told this was Bollawal but it seems that 'o's and 'a's are pretty well interchangeable. It's near Carn Gloose [alternative spelling - Carn Gluze.] The distance from St Just is easily walkable but there's a car road if you prefer.
davidcross Says: To me Cape Cornwall is one of England's great coastal points. I've never seen the Scilly Isles from it but you can when the view is clear enough.Just out from the Cape are two large rocks called the Brissons [rhyming with prisons.] The area is owned by the National Trust and...
davidcross Says: Yes, another church - and I'm not even religious! This one is granite, like all the others in the area, but it has some interesting features.The font dates from about 1100 and there are some spectacular pew end carvings. Outside the coffin rest in the north entrance is...
davidcross Says: This may take a bit of finding but it's worth the effort. It's an iron age settlement and it's delightfully peaceful. The sites of the ancient dwellings are very clear but THE thing that makes Carn Euny is the excellent fogue [underground passage.] There are exotic ideas...
davidcross Says: Zennor is a very small village between St Just in Penwith and St Ives. Three things appeal:1. The Tinners Arms - this will get a separate restaurant tip2. Zennor Head - one of many fine headlands along the south-western coast path3. Zennor Church - where some of the features...
davidcross Says: To visit St Buryan from St Just really calls for a car, although probably careful study of bus timetables might provide an alternative.I would be a long and not particularly interesting walk - although one myth has it that Saints Buryan and Just used to hurl rocks at each...
Botallack - mining remains and coastal scenery
davidcross Says: You could well start at the same place as on my 'favourite valley' tip and keep up high to the right of the valley. This will take you to the coastal path and you simply follow this as far as you want but at least to the mining remains at Botallack. Also see the excellent...
The Kings Arms: Ancient building, good beer
leics Says: The Kings Arms dates from the 1300s and is a lovely old pub, with low ceilings and stone floors, blackened beams an real fires.I didn't eat here, but the Italian family who'd arrived earlier had and they certainly seemed pleased with their meal.I just had half of Doom beer...
King's Arms, Paul: Pub with unusual soups
davidcross Says: No, of course it doesn't ONLY do soup. It's just that soup and a roll or slice of good bread is something that quite often satisfies our needs at lunch time.Unusual? Well, you don't often find spiced spinach and coconut in a pub, do you? There are coats of arms in bright...
Tinners Arms, Zennor: Pub with great food
davidcross Says: I expect it's OK in summer but out of season it's a real delight to go in and find a large log fire burning at each end of a long bar.They only prepare meals to order so you may be waiting a bit but it's worth it. Actually we only wanted soup and a roll but their lentil soup...
Sennen Cove Beach Restaurant: Expensive but worth it
davidcross Says: The views from here over the beach and the coast are sufficient to justify the wait while your food is cooked to order.Three of us ate here and tried varying foods; all were really good. It's the evening menu that is expensive although even the price of the very good coffee...
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Numerous Cornish beaches ban dogs between Easter and October so, if you plan to bring a dog down here, you would do well to study the web site below.
I believe it is rare to find the ban in place before Easter but at Mousehole they were clearly banned at all times.
Updated Apr 4, 2011
davidcross Says: This is, as it's reputed to be, a small and intensely picturesque harbour. However even in early March the quaintness of the village attracted more traffic than it can reasonably take and in the main season it must surely be dreadful.As a dog owner I don't want to know about...
davidcross Says: This might be just what you are looking for - or you may agree with me that it spoils beautiful scenery. The website is honest enough so you can make up your own mind.http://www.landsend-landmark.co.uk/ Spend as high a proportion of the time as possible admiring the cliff...
The first and last 18 hole golf course in Britain with spectacular views overlooking the only Cape in England with rugged North Cornwall Coast.
This ss68, par 70 course has spectacular views overlooking the ocean and is surrounded by iron and bronze age settlements and old mine workings.
Designed in 1990 by Bob Hamilton, who has also helped design courses in Scotland and Singapore, it is a truly natural course, and very well drained to the extent that there is never a need for winter greens.
The course is a challenge for the club golfer and low handicap golfer alike. Hazards includes lies on existing undulating land, dry stone walls — some of which cross fairways — and bunkers.
Written Jul 31, 2006
Address: close to Saint Just
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Favorite thing: Land's End lies at the extreme western end of Cornwall, at the end of the main A 30 road. The coastal scenery here is spectacular and this in itself is a 'Tourist Trap' in the nicest sense of the meaning. However, the whole area has been rather spoilt by trashy development of what I would call a semi-themepark, which is not in keeping with the beauty of the spectatular beauty of the place!
I first new of Land's End's beauty in the early 1960's when I cycled there from my home in Surrey at the age of 15. At that time there was an hotel, and the famous 'First and Last House', which was a small gift shop and cafe. Today, there is a large childrens' play area, lots of gift shops, and a huge car park on the cliff-top, which, the last time I visited, they wanted an extortionate amount of money from you to use. We just turned around and drove straight out! Having said this, it would be a pity if the one-time visitor failed to see this unique part of Cornwall. Just refuse to be ripped off by the giftshops!
Fondest memory: My fondest memory has to be of what it used to be like in the 1960's. Just an hotel and the First And Last House.
Written Feb 25, 2003
I only spent a short while at St Just, on a chilly and very windy January day. I really just stopped for a quick exploration and something to eat and a (small) beer in between visiting a *very* windy...
St Just-in-Penwith, real town and great centre.
We have a friend who was brought up in St Just. About three years ago she and her brother bought a house there, to which they make periodic visits from their respective homes. We went first to join......
Unfortunately there isn't a location for Land's end on VT, so it has to be the closest village, St Just, some six miles distance. Land's End is one of the best known locations within the UK!
Land's End, approximately nine miles west of Penzance, is the most westerly point of the English mainland and the closest to the North American continent. Looking out to sea from here allows the mind...
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