Treen Cove (Gurnards Head) Beach
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Treen Cove (Gurnards Head) has excellent scenery and a lot of history: the site of a Cornish Iron Age fort, tin mine and pilchard works. Not an area for family beaches but very interesting for walkers.
Parking available and a nearby pub.
We have no current information on dog restrictions for Treen Cove (Gurnards Head) Beach.
Why not check other beaches nearby as we have 50 beaches around Penwith Peninsula, 215 beaches in Cornwall, or check our list of Cornwall Dog Friendly Beaches.
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- Chysauster Ancient Village, 2,000 year old Iron Age settlement. The village of stone-walled homesteads known as ‘courtyard houses’, found only on the Land’s End peninsula and the Isles of Scilly. The houses line a ‘village street’, and each had an open central courtyard surrounded by a number of thatched rooms. There are also the remains of an enigmatic ‘fogou’ underground passage.
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