Places to visit

Porthcurno

Porthcurno

Porthcurno is a small village off the B3283 southwest from St Buryan and about nine miles west of Penzance close to Lands End. Porthcurno beach is some yards south of the village with Logan Rock headland in the distance. The coastline around the bay is popular with walkers and seen as an area of outstanding beauty. In the cliff face to the west of Porthcurno is the open air Minack Theatre built by Rowena Cade with a backdrop of the Bay and Logan Rock Headland.

Porthgwarra - Porth Gorwedhow

Porthgwarra - Porth Gorwedhow

Porthgwarra (Porth Gorwedhow) is a small coastal village between Portcurno and Lands End with access to the beach via a lane off the B3283. The South West Coast Path goes through Portgwarra.

Lands End - Pedn an Wlas

Lands End/Pedn an Wlas is the extreme south westerly point of the British mainland with the Isles of Scilly about 28 miles to the south west. Offshore are the Longships which are a group of rocks just over a mile west of Lands End. The three largest are Meinek, Tal-y Maen and Carn Bras with two nearer the coast and are a popular location for diving. On Carn Bras stands the Longships Lighthouse. There is a tourist centre and other facilities at the site.

Sennen - Sen Senan

Sennen - Sen Senan

Sennen/Sen Senan is a village close to Lands Ends. The church is dedicated to St Sinninus with the  present church building dating back to the thirteenth. The church here was founded in 520 AD..

Carn Euny

Carn Euny

Carn Euny is the remains of a settlement dating from the Iron Age into the Romano-British period. There are several buildings consisting of a dry stone wall around an open courtyard with a dwelling house built into the wall opposite the entrance with lean-to structures along either side. Adjoining the one of the courtyard houses is a fogou. The site is east from Landsend north of the A30 at Crows-an-Wra. The site can be reached by road with lay-by car parking at Brane and then on foot via a public footpath.

Boscawen-un Stone Circle

Boscawen Stone Circle is situated beneath the southern slopes of Creeg Tol. An enclosed circular bank built in the 19th century to replace an earlier boundary that bisected the circle. The oval shaped circle is made up of nineteen large upright stones. In the centre of the circle lies a tall stone with two axe carvings on it's north-east face. There are remains of later Bronze Age field systems in the area and of four Bronze Age barrows and a Neolithic/Bronze Age menhir to the north-east. The site is to the east of Crows-an-Wra and reached by a track that runs from the A30 towards Boscawenoon and Changwens farms which is a public right of way. There is also a path over open access land from the A30 to the north-west.

Ballowall Barrow or Carn Gluze

Ballowall Barrow or Carn Gluze

Ballowall is a prehistoric cairn which incorporates other phases of use in the Neolithic and Middle Bronze Age periods. It is located on Ballowall Common on the cliff top south of St Just. The barrow is 72 feet in diameter and is a protected Scheduled Monument.

St Just - Lannyust

St Just Church

St Just (Lannyust) is a town north of Ballowall Barrow and on the B3306 and is about eight miles west of Penzance. The settlement has a long mining history. The church of St Just was built in 1334 but only part of the chancel remains from that period with the current building dating from the fifteenth century. On the common green is Plain-an-Gwarry which has historically and continues to be used for entertainments.

Portreath

Portreath is a fishing port on the B3301 north east from Gwithian three miles north west from Redruth. The village is centred around the harbour and to the west is the popular tourist and water sport beach.

Illogan - Egloshal

Illogan/Egloshal village which is southeast of Portreath which is about two miles northwest of Redruth. The medieval church of St Illogan is located here of which the tower is now all that remains of the original building.

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