Places to explore near Falmouth Docks StationFalmouth

630 miles around England's toe — the longest and most demanding of the National Trails.

0.1 km SE · spans 4 counties

Henry VIII's artillery fort on the Falmouth headland, garrisoned through to the Second World War.

0.8 km SE

Lively harbour town on one of the world's largest natural harbours, with a cobbled main street, beaches and Pendennis Castle.

1 km W · Cornwall

The best of Cornwall's coast and moor, gathered into a dozen protected stretches around the county

1.1 km NE

Clover-shaped Tudor fort on the Roseland.

2.3 km E

Sailing village on the Roseland Peninsula looking across Carrick Roads, with a Tudor artillery castle guarding the harbour.

2.3 km E · Cornwall

Olga Polizzi's seaside hotel restaurant in the Roseland village of St Mawes.

2.7 km E

13th-century creekside church whose subtropical churchyard of palms and shrubs tumbles down to a tidal inlet.

4.5 km NE

Roseland hamlet gathered around a waterside church whose subtropical churchyard spills down to a tidal creek.

4.8 km NE · Cornwall

Reckoned Cornwall's oldest garden, with a six-acre meadow that turns blue with bluebells.

4.9 km NW

Valley garden with famous cherry-laurel maze.

6.5 km SW

A subtropical ravine garden running down to the Helford.

7.1 km SW

Wooded estate above the Fal estuary.

7.5 km N

The site of Britain's only tea plantation, grown in a sheltered estuary valley.

9.7 km N

Silent wooded tidal creek off the Helford River, made famous by Daphne du Maurier's smuggling romance.

9.7 km SW

One path around a whole country — beach, clifftop and seawall the entire way round England's coast, opening stretch by stretch.

0.1 km E · spans 24 counties

Sheltered waterside village of Dutch-built quays across the creek from Falmouth, reached by a seasonal ferry.

1.9 km NW · Cornwall

Set on Zone Point at the mouth of Falmouth's great natural harbour, and known to a generation as the lighthouse in the children's series Fraggle Rock.

3.1 km E

Thatched 13th-century waterside inn on a creek off the Fal, with a floating pontoon for arriving boats.

4.9 km N

A National Trust place in Cornwall.

6.2 km SW

A National Trust place in Cornwall.

7.8 km S

Thatched 18th-century pub right on the edge of the Helford River, reached by lane or by boat.

8.5 km SW

A National Trust place in Cornwall.

9.8 km NE