ST IVES:
One of Cornwall's premier holiday resorts and an area preferred by many.
It offers excellent beaches both for swimming and surfing. A lovely harbour area with a long frontage offering a variety of amenities.
An extremely old town centre with cobbled streets, numerous little shops, restaurants, tea rooms and pubs.
The town does get extremely busy during high season but never boisterous, it does not have the night life of places such as Newquay. It is popular with families who tend to return on a regular annual basis.
The town is also famous for it's artists and boasts several art galleries including The Tate.
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| Lands End a pleasant drive away | Marazion Nearby |
TOURING & SURROUNDING AREA
As the cottages are situated on the outskirts of St Ives there is easy access to the main roads including the A30 trunk road.
Places such as Lands End, Penzance and Truro are just an easy drive away. Even Cornwall's latest major attraction, The Eden Project is just an hour away.
Seven miles to the south is Penzance, the largest shopping centre in the region with a busy harbour and helicopter and boat services to the Scilly Isles.
Continuing along the coast to Lands End you will pass through the picturesque fishing villages of Newlyn, Mousehole, Lamorna Cove and Porthcurno with its open air Minack Theatre, the sea is a spectacular backdrop.
This part of Cornwall is dotted with mysterious stone circles, lone standing stones, Neolithic settlements and burial chambers, and iron age forts. Returning along the north coast you will see ruined mine shafts on the sky line and pass through the old tin mining villages of St Just and Zennor.
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| St.Ives Harbour | Carbis Bay |
Turn right off the A30 to St.Ives, on the A3074. After 200 metres, past Wyevale you will come to two mini roundabouts. Turn left at second roundabout and follow the Holiday Route. Stay on this road for approximately 3-3.5miles (5km) and you will eventually reach a T-Junction. Turn right towards St.Ives on the B3311 and travel approximately 0.5 miles(0.8km) where you will reach a tight left turn opposite the Halsetown Inn. Turn right keeping the pub on your right and travel to the end of the village. Just before the national speed limit sign, turn right down an unmade lane.