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Tidal island
St Michael's Mount
Tidal island in Mount's Bay, linked to Marazion by a granite causeway that can be crossed from mid-tide to low water.
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Penzance, Mousehole & Land’s End: things to do
Places worth your time in Penzance, Mousehole & Land’s End
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Things to do in Penzance, Mousehole & Land’s End
Landmarks, museums, parks and viewpoints in and around the area.
Town and beach
Marazion
Town on Mount's Bay two miles east of Penzance, facing St Michael's Mount.
Nature reserve
Marazion Marsh
RSPB reserve west of Marazion that holds Cornwall's largest reed bed.
Museum and gallery
Penlee House Gallery and Museum
Museum and art gallery in Penzance with many paintings by members of the Newlyn School.
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Lido
Jubilee Pool
Grade II listed Art Deco sea-water lido on the Penzance seafront, about 300 feet long.
Garden
Morrab Gardens
Municipal garden of 1.2 hectares south of the town centre, known for Mediterranean and sub-tropical plants.
Art gallery
Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange
Contemporary art gallery in Newlyn, opened in 1895 as a home for Newlyn School art, with a second venue in Penzance.
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Fishing port
Newlyn
Seaside town and fishing port next to Penzance, the largest fishing port by tonnage in England.
Fishing village
Mousehole
Fishing village and port on Mount's Bay, about 2.5 miles south of Penzance.
Cove
Lamorna Cove
Village, valley and cove on the Penwith peninsula, popular with artists of the Newlyn School.
Stone circle
Merry Maidens
Late Neolithic stone circle about two miles south of St Buryan.
Stone circle
Boscawen-Un
Bronze Age stone circle near St Buryan with nineteen upright stones in an ellipse.
Museum
PK Porthcurno
Museum of global communications at Porthcurno, where many submarine telegraph cables came ashore.
Headland and visitor centre
Land's End
Headland and visitor complex about eight miles west-south-west of Penzance, at the western end of the A30.
Cove and village
Sennen Cove
Small coastal village near Land’s End, on the South West Coast Path.
Headland
Cape Cornwall
Small headland four miles north of Land's End near St Just, long believed to be Cornwall's most westerly point.
Mine ruins
Botallack Mine
Former mine on the cliffs near St Just, part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site since 2006.
Mine and museum
Geevor Tin Mine
Tin mine at Pendeen that worked from 1911 to 1990 and now has a hard rock museum.
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A fishing port, estuary cycling and sandy bays on the north coast
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- Penzance, Mousehole & Land’s End (area photo): Lewis Clarke, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- St Michael's Mount: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, source
- Marazion: The original uploader was Shropman at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Marazion Marsh: James Emmans, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Penlee House Gallery and Museum: Purely Penzance, CC BY 2.0, source
- Jubilee Pool: Tom Corser, CC BY-SA 2.0 uk, source
- Morrab Gardens: Palickap, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange: Steve Tanner, photographer, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Newlyn: Marktee1, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mousehole: Olaf Tausch, CC BY 3.0, source
- Lamorna Cove: Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Merry Maidens: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Boscawen-Un: Waterborough, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- PK Porthcurno: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Land's End: Jakemete, CC BY 3.0, source
- Sennen Cove: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cape Cornwall: Stevekraken, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Botallack Mine: Kevin Walsh from Bicester, England, CC BY 2.0, source
- Geevor Tin Mine: Tom Page, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Falmouth & the Helford: Tim Green, CC BY 2.0, source
- Newquay & the North Coast: Otto Domes, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Padstow & the Camel Estuary: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Fowey, Polperro & the south-east coast: Marika Reinholds, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- St Ives & West Penwith: ArildV, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licences shown. All photo credits
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