Places to explore in CornwallEngland · South West England

Giant biome domes of rainforest and Mediterranean planting built inside a reclaimed china-clay pit near St Austell.

Pale sand, serpentine stacks and turquoise water in a National Trust cove on the Lizard, much of it covered at high tide.

Open-air amphitheatre carved by hand into the granite cliff above Porthcurno, overlooking a turquoise bay.

Tidal island in Mount's Bay topped by the St Aubyns' castle and chapel, with a harbour village and terraced gardens below

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Five inhabited islands among scores of rocks and islets off Land's End, with white-sand beaches, Tresco Abbey Garden, seabirds and inter-island launches

23 km² · Cornwall

The westernmost point of mainland England, its granite cliffs looking out to the Longships Lighthouse and the open Atlantic.

Line of dark slate stacks marching across a wide golden beach below high cliffs, said in legend to be a giant's stepping stones.

The Crowns engine houses clinging to the cliff foot on the Tin Coast, the most photographed ruins of the mining World Heritage Site.

Iconic clifftop tin-mine engine house above Chapel Porth near St Agnes, silhouetted against the sea.

The white tower off St Ives that Virginia Woolf watched as a child and turned into the distant beacon of her novel To the Lighthouse.

Britain's southernmost point with lighthouse and cliffs.

The 'lost' Victorian gardens, rediscovered and restored.