Places to explore near St Ives (Cornwall) StationSt Ives

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

0 km N · spans 4 counties

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

0.3 km NW · Cornwall

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

0.7 km NW

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

1.1 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.

7.2 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.

9.3 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

9.5 km S

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

0 km NE · spans 24 counties

A National Trust place in Cornwall.

7.9 km NE

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

8.8 km E

A coastal swimming spot with excellent water quality.

9.2 km S