A maze of quiet creeks off Falmouth’s broad harbour. The ancient port of Falmouth is a gateway to a fascinating maze of creeks and tidal rivers, sheltered by rolling farmland. …

The Iron Age Celts who settled in Cornwall from about 500 BC introduced a Celtic language which survived the coming of Anglo-Saxons and was still spoken until the 18 century.…

An island castle on a bay of beaches and rocky coves. The rocky shore of Mount’s Bay is a broken succession of coves, linked like beads on a chain by…

One of the Lizard peninsula most memorable villages, Coverack overlooks a sand and shingle bay where the sea is remarkably clear. It is one of the many Cornish villages where…

The seas that wash the Penwith Peninsula are so clear that basking sharks, huge but harmless, can sometimes be seen from the high granite cliffs. Land’s End attracts a throng…

Superb surfing beaches, punctuated by craggy headlands, sweep northwards from Perranporth to way beyond Newquay. They are seen at their most dramatic when huge waves, driven by stiff westerly winds,…

The town that is now Cornwall’s biggest resort and Britain’s foremost surfing centre grew up around a ‘ new quay’ whose building was sanctioned by the Bishop of Exeter in…

On granite headlands, in boulder strewn valleys and perched on cliffs high above the sea, the gaunt chimneys and engine houses of Cornwall’s derelict mines are stark relics of the…