Places to explore near St Ives

Light-filled seaside town of galleries and white-sand beaches, home to Tate St Ives above its old fishing harbour.

0 km N · Cornwall

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

0.1 km NE · spans 4 counties

Modern-art gallery overlooking Porthmeor Beach, showing the work of St Ives' celebrated 20th-century artists.

0.5 km NW

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

0.9 km NW

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.

6.7 km NE

Stone courtyard houses of an Iron Age and Roman farming village on a Penwith hillside.

6.9 km SW

Wild moorland-and-cliff hamlet on the road to St Ives, with the mermaid-carved church of St Senara and the Gurnard's Head nearby.

7.1 km W · Cornwall

Old market town on Mount's Bay linked to St Michael's Mount by a tidal cobbled causeway that appears at low water.

9.6 km S · Cornwall

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

9.8 km S

Terminus town on Mount's Bay with a subtropical promenade, the restored Jubilee lido and gateway to Land's End and the Scillies.

11 km S · Cornwall

Art Deco seawater lido of 1935 on the rocks at Penzance, with a geothermally heated pool beside the big unheated one.

11.3 km S

Cornwall's largest fishing port on Mount's Bay, working harbour and art-colony history sitting side by side near Penzance.

12.7 km SW · Cornwall

A big, shallow sea pool built by Mousehole villagers in the early 1970s on the shore below the village, facing St Clement's Isle.

14.6 km S

Granite fishing village on Mount's Bay whose tiny harbour, wrapped by a curving stone breakwater, glows with lights each Christmas.

14.7 km S · Cornwall

Harbourside bistro in one of Cornwall's prettiest fishing villages, a fixture of the South West's Trencherman's roll call.

14.8 km S

Preserved 20th-century tin mine at Pendeen where visitors go underground and through the surviving processing works.

15.4 km SW

A clifftop tin mine near St Just where the old pumping engine still turns under steam, above workings that ran out beneath the sea

16.1 km SW

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

16.9 km SW

Small granite-quarried cove in a wooded Penwith valley, long a haunt of painters and writers.

17.5 km S

Britain's most southerly port, its harbour framed by the landmark clock-tower institute and a growing reputation for food.

18.2 km SE · Cornwall

Small headland near St Just crowned by an old mine chimney, the only 'cape' in England, where two tides meet.

18.7 km SW

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

20.5 km NE

White-sand surf beach beside Land's End.

21.4 km SW

Westernmost village in England, a surfing and fishing cove looking out to the Longships Lighthouse near Land's End.

21.7 km SW · Cornwall

Steeply reached tidal beach of white sand and lagoon-blue water beneath the Treryn Dinas headland near Porthcurno.

21.8 km SW

Former mining village in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, its ruined engine houses set above the surf of Trevaunance Cove.

21.9 km NE · Cornwall

Huge balanced boulder on the Treryn Dinas headland near Treen, once famously rocked and toppled by a naval party.

22 km SW

White sand cove below the Minack cliffs.

22.3 km SW

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

22.5 km SW

Remote south-facing cove near Land's End with a sea-worn 'Song of the Sea' arch in the cliff.

22.8 km SW

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

23.1 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 NE · spans 24 counties

A National Trust place in Cornwall.

7.9 km E

Large farm shop, pick-your-own fields and restaurant on the flat land near Hayle, a long-standing food destination.

9 km E

A coastal swimming spot with excellent water quality.

9.4 km S

A National Trust place in Cornwall.

10.3 km SW

A National Trust place in Cornwall.

10.4 km S

Reputedly Penzance's oldest pub, founded in the 13th century and said to hide a smugglers' tunnel to the harbour.

11.1 km S

A coastal swimming spot with excellent water quality.

11.4 km S