Trewidden Garden was originally planted by Thomas Bolitho in the 1850’s. The 15-acre garden incorporates a magnificent collection of over 300 Camellias and Magnolias alongside one of the largest tree fern dells in the Northern Hemisphere and many other attractions.
The gardens include a tearoom, plant shop and regular events.
Open to the public during the Spring, Summer and beginning of Autumn every year. Dogs are also very welcome to visit the Garden.
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In this 'you may also like' section we attempt to answer what else can I do? Here you have a list by order of being the closest some more beaches, things to see and do, places to eat and upcoming events.
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19th September 2021
The festival runs for three days at Porthminster beach in St Ives. Activities include: fantastic demonstrations from nationally renowned celebrity chefs artisan traders with high-quality food and drink music performances children’s play area water sports activities
Read more…The Geevor Tin Mine is the largest preserved mining site in the UK, and part of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site! You can go underground into a real 18th-century tin mine, visit the interactive Hard Rock Museum that takes you through the fascinating story of Cornish Tin and Copper mining, and explore the mining buildings with their intact mining
Read more…The Logan Rock is an example of a logan or rocking stone. The rock is an eighty ton granite boulder perched on the edge of the cliffs. Finely balanced due to the actions of weathering, and prior to its restoration in 1824 it could be rocked by applying only a little pressure. The name Logan Rock is also applied to
Read more…Owing its name to the unique howl heard when the wind filled the fissures of the rock, which is four miles south west of Lands End, or possibly too, because of the assumed shape of the rock to a wolf’s head, the station came into Trinity House history with the leasing to a Mr Henry Smith, the right to mark
Read more…Bassetts Cove beach is a small sandy beach situated at the bottom of sheer cliffs. Note the beach disappears at low tide. Parking, access to the beach is a fairly hazardous decent down a slippery cliff path.
Read more…Porthglaze Cove is a pebble/rocky cove on the South West Coast Path between Zennor Head and Gurnards Head. No facilities, access is on foot from the coast path. We have no dog information for Porthglaze Cove beach.
Read more…Penlee lifeboat station had its first lifeboat in the early 1800s and now operates offshore and inshore lifeboats. Station only open by appointment whilst the shop is open during the summer but limited in the winter.
Read more…Nanjizal beach is sand with boulders and caves. The beach never gets busy as it has no facilities and hard to reach, with access being by foot along the coast path.
Read more…Piskies Cove is part of the Prussia Cove group of Coves, a small very isolated cove that is good for swimming but at high tide the beach disappears. Large flat areas of rock suitable for sunbathing. No facilities.
Read more…The old Market House is an imposing building in the main shopping street of Penzance which is now a bank. The statue outside is of Humphry Davy, the inventor of the Davy Lamp.
Read more…Porthgwidden beach is a small sandy sheltered beach to the north of St Ives harbour. The beach is backed by grass slopes and beach huts and as well as the sand you have some interesting rocks to explore. The beach is positioned within the town between the bigger St. Ives beaches and more visitors tend to head to these bigger
Read more…Levant Mine and Beam Engine is part of Cornwall and West Devon Mining World Heritage Site. Includes the only Cornish beam engine anywhere in the world that is still in steam at a tin and copper mine.
Read more…The Gwithian Academy of Surfing’s surf school and shop are situated at Gwithian which is the Northernmost point of the lonh Hayle beach in St Ives Bay.
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