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Cornwall’s peninsula at the south-western most tip of England forms part of the Atlantic Arc. Steeped in history there are Iron and Bronze Age settlements dotted across its landscape, together with a stunning coastline.
NCI Portscatho Lookout Station.
Pednvadan Point
The Bay runs from Rame Head in the east to Portwrinkle in the west featuring sheer, high cliffs and long stretches of sandy beaches. The South West Coast Path runs the length of the bay.
Whitsand Bay
The Headland at Porthmeor.
Porthmeor
There is a footpath from St Just-in-Roseland to St Mawes with access to several beaches along a stretch of water called the Carrick Road
Buoys - Carrick Roads
There is a footpath from St Just-in-Roseland to St Mawes with access to several beaches along a stretch of water called the Carrick Roads.
Pushing the Boat Out
Pendower beach is located on the South Cornish coast east of St Mawes at Gerrans Bay.
Artist
The fishing port of Mevagissy has white and colour-washed houses perched on the slopes of the hills encircling two harbours. Many of the old fish cellars in the village have been converted to modern use but their old appearance retained.
Mevagissy Fishing Nets

Shop Doorway
The harbour wall of this coastal village on the Roseland Peninsula. The village adjoins Gerrans on the east side of the peninsula and southeast of Truro.
Portscatho Harbour
Upturned boats on the slipway.
Portscatho Boats
This is coastal village on the Roseland Peninsula. Looking towards Nare Head at the eastern side of Gerrans Bay. Gull Rock lies off the Headland.
Portscatho Slipway
From Wilcove jetty looking across the Hamoaze with the Tamar Road and Rail Bridges in the distance together with Saltash.
Tamar Bridge - Dusk
Fishing was traditionally the principal occupation of Polperro families.[3] For centuries the village has been a pilchard fishing and processing port.
Polperro
A section of the path over Nare Head, beginning at Carne ending at Portloe.
Nare Head - May

Eden Project !

St. Ives Harbour
One of only five chain ferries in England this chain ferry crosses the Carrick Roads reach of the estuary of the River Fal. The ferry crosses between the villages of Feock and Philleigh.
King Harry Ferry
On the cliff path above Pennarin Point, a small headland between Nare Head and Carne Beach. Below Pennarin Point is the small inlet of Tregagle's Hole.
Pennarin Point
Pendower is located on the South Cornish coast east of St Mawes at Gerrans Bay.
Pendower
A hay ring being replenished with straw on Nare Head.
Hay Ring, Nare Head
This coastal village on the Roseland Peninsula. The village adjoins Gerrans on the east side of the peninsula and southeast of Truro.
Portscatho Shop
St Mawes is a small fishing village located at the end of the Roseland peninsula looking out over the River Fal towards the maritime town of Falmouth. The coastline around St. Mawes was used as the setting for the popular television series Poldark.
St. Mawes
St Mawes to Falmouth ferry has been in existence from 1878. A new ferry, 'The Duchess of Cornwall', was launched in May 2008. St Mawes is a small fishing village located at the end of the Roseland peninsula looking over the River Fal.
St. Mawes Ferry
Farming at Nare Head
Nare Head
This village was important in the 17c and 18c as a busy pilchard fishing port. At the beginning of the 20c there were in excess of 50 boats fishing here - now only three boats work from the cove mainly for crab and lobster.
Landing Seagull at Portloe
Portscatho is a former pilchard-fishing village.
Kittiwake - Portscatho Harbour
The 13th century St Justus church is built beside the water on a tidal creek and is on the site of a 5th century chapel.
St Justus Church
St. Just in Roseland a 13th century church, set in gardens planted with semitropical shrubs and trees, many of which are species rare.
Celtic Cross
Rock pools and cliffs at Pendower have been designated Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
Rock Pool
The main rocks of the area are of the Devonian period and are mainly mudstones altered into weak slates, they are strongly inclined To the east of the beach a fault divides the rocks between the Portscatho formation and the Pendower formation.
Pendower Cliffs
Several bronze urns have been placed in these gardens. The 17th century urns came from a French chateau and were designed by Louis Ballin, the goldsmith to Louis XIV.
Lanhydrock
The Saints Way was a route used by traders, missionaries and pilgrims during the Dark and Middle Ages as a way of travelling from Padstow to Fowey. The picture is taken from St. Catherine's Castle looking towards Gribben Head.
Saints Way & Gribben Head
Pendinas means fortified headland. On the island is St. Nicholas Chapel used by the 'Preventive Men' who watched for smugglers from here. An isthmus connects the island to the mainland
Pendinas
The Hamoaze is an estuarine stretch of water at the point where the tidal River Tamar, the River Tavy, and the River Lynher meet, prior to entering Plymouth Sound and flowing past Devonport Dockyard belonging to the Royal Navy.
Devonport Dockyard
The castle, originally built by the Normans on a spur, overlooking the river valley, stands one mile upriver from Lostwithiel.
Restormel Castle
Situated deep in a valley half a mile from Veryan is a refurbished medieval water mill, Housing a small mill museum and a country crafts shop. It has a working wheel fed by the mill pool.
Water Wheel - Melinsey Mill,
Portscatho is a former pilchard-fishing village on the Roseland peninsula.
Portscatho Shop Window
This mill is a where corn was ground for the local community. It is a restored Mill and flour is produced regularly and is available for sale.
Cotehele Flour Mill
Holiday rock in a shop window on the harbourside.
Padstow Rock!
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