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Art gallery
Tate St Ives
Gallery of modern British art with links to the St Ives area. Tate also manages the Barbara Hepworth Museum in the town.
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St Ives & West Penwith: things to do
Places worth your time in St Ives & West Penwith
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Things to do in St Ives & West Penwith
Landmarks, museums, parks and viewpoints in and around the area.
Museum and garden
Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden
Studio and garden where the sculptor Barbara Hepworth lived and worked from 1949 until her death in 1975, kept much as she left them.
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Pottery and museum
Leach Pottery
Pottery founded in 1920 by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada, now with a museum and a working studio.
Church
St Ia's Church
Grade I listed parish church dedicated to Ia, an Irish saint of the 5th or 6th century.
Beach
Porthmeor Beach
Surfing beach on the north-west side of St Ives, below Tate St Ives.
Beach
Porthminster Beach
Beach with almost half a mile of sand on the south-east side of St Ives.
Pier
Smeaton's Pier
Pier sheltering St Ives harbour, rebuilt by John Smeaton between 1766 and 1770; the octagonal lookout is part of his design.
Church
St Senara's Church, Zennor
Parish church of Zennor, at least 1,400 years old as a site of worship and rebuilt in the 12th century.
Headland
Zennor Head
Granite headland about 750 metres long on the north coast between Pendour Cove and Porthzennor Cove.
Headland
Gurnard's Head
Prominent headland on the north coast of the Penwith peninsula, said to be named for its resemblance to a gurnard's head.
Ancient village
Chysauster Ancient Village
Late Iron Age and Romano-British village of courtyard houses, cared for by English Heritage.
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Standing stones
Men-an-Tol
Small formation of standing stones on moorland about three miles north-west of Madron.
Beach
Carbis Bay
Beach and village about a mile south-east of St Ives, with the South West Coast Path passing above.
Lighthouse
Godrevy Lighthouse
Lighthouse of 1858 to 1859 on Godrevy Island, about 300 metres off Godrevy Head, marking the Stones reef.
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Falmouth & the Helford
A deep-water port, two Tudor castles and the creeks of the Helford
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Newquay & the North Coast
Surf beaches, headlands and family attractions on the Atlantic coast
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- St Ives & West Penwith (area photo): ArildV, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Tate St Ives: flickr user "Steve Parker", CC BY 2.0, source
- Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden: Tom Parnell, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Leach Pottery: Jordanhill School D&T Dept, CC BY 2.0, source
- St Ia's Church: Olaf Tausch, CC BY 3.0, source
- Porthmeor Beach: DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Porthminster Beach: ArildV, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Smeaton's Pier: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- St Senara's Church, Zennor: The original uploader was Nabokov at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Zennor Head: Matthew Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Gurnard's Head: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Chysauster Ancient Village: habiloid, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Men-an-Tol: Bkroll, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Carbis Bay: Andy F, CC BY 3.0, source
- Godrevy Lighthouse: Stevekraken, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Penzance, Mousehole & Land’s End: Lewis Clarke, 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
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licences shown. All photo credits
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