The Atlantic is a 1-minute walk from the beach. On the beautiful Hugh Town seafront of St Mary’s Island, The Atlantic offers bright, individually decorated rooms and fresh, seasonal food. The ferry terminal is just 5 minutes’ walk away and operates to and from Penzance. Read more…
Porth Hellick Down is an area of downland on the east side of the island of St Mary’s in the Isles of Scilly. Seven Scillonian entrance graves stand on the down, the largest is the Great Tomb which has a 12m diameter and a central burial chamber 3m long and 1m high. An unroofed passage 4.2m long leads into the Read more…
Appletree Bay beach is approximately 1 km of fine white sand backed by sand dunes that look out over the Tresco Flats towards Bryher and Samson. The beach has no facilities. Read more…
Adams Fish and Chips is a family run restaurant and take away situated at Higher town on St Martin’s in the Scillies. We serve island caught fish and make most of our chips from potatoes grown on our family farm. The shop has a large indoor seating area and picnic tables under a canopy outside. Friendly and quiet dogs are Read more…
Tresco Abbey Gardens are located over 17 acres on the island of Tresco in the Isles of Scilly. The gardens were established in the nineteenth-century by Augustus Smith. At the entrance to the garden is the Visitor Centre with a gift shop, a cafeteria and a history room. Read more…
St Martin’s Bay Beach is a stretch of multiple bays and coves split by some rock outcrops, great sand backed by sand dunes. You have from the south Wine Cove, Great Bay, Little Bay and The Cove beaches. At the northern point, you have a sandbar that leads from The Cove to White Island. Out in the bay, you have Read more…
Peninnis Lighthouse on St Mary’s Island in the Scilly Isles is a small automatic lighthouse consisting of a metal tower, the upper part painted white and the lower part and cupola painted black. This lighthouse was established in 1911 when it superseded the lighthouse on St Agnes which had been in operation since 1680. Read more…
Bant’s Carn Burial Chamber and Halangy Down Ancient Village. The remains of an Iron Age village in a scenic location. With a Bronze Age burial mound, entrance passage and inner chamber. Read more…
Cromwell’s Castle guards the anchorage between Bryher and Tresco. The castle has a round tower and is one of the few surviving Cromwellian fortifications in Britain, built after the conquest of the Royalist Scillies in 1651. Read more…
