Villages & towns in CornwallCornwall, England

Georgian china-clay port near St Austell, its unchanged harbour often lined with tall ships and used as a period film set.

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Bustling Camel-estuary harbour town, famous for its fishing quay, Obby Oss festival and a clutch of Rick Stein restaurants.

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

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

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Old smuggling village packed into a steep ravine, its whitewashed cottages and car-free lanes clustered around a small tidal harbour.

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Sheltered north-coast harbour reached by a twisting inlet between high cliffs, with the National Trust visitor centre and Minster woods above.

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

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Twin fishing town of East and West Looe joined by a bridge across the river, with a busy quay and sandy beach.

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

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Working fishing port with a double harbour, narrow lanes and a maze of pastel cottages on the south coast near Heligan.

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North-coast fishing village of whitewashed cottages tumbling down to a working harbour, familiar as the screen home of Doc Martin.

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Clifftop north-coast village beside the ruined castle long linked to the Arthurian legend and its dramatic headland.

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

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Steeply stacked village at the mouth of the Fowey estuary, reached by passenger ferry across from Fowey itself.

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Cornwall's only city, a Georgian county town of cobbled streets gathered beneath the three spires of its Victorian Gothic cathedral.

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Thatched-and-cob fishing hamlet on the Lizard where boats are still winched up the shingle beside two coves.

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Steep-streeted working port on its own wooded estuary, with medieval and Georgian houses and strong Daphne du Maurier links.

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

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

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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.

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Bodmin Moor village of granite cottages and a packhorse bridge below St Nonna's, the tall 'Cathedral of the Moor'.

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Rare Bodmin Moor village built around a tree-shaded green, with a much-loved beer-lover's inn and a richly restored church.

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Twin smuggling villages on the Rame Peninsula, a huddle of colour-washed cottages looking across Plymouth Sound.

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Quiet Lizard fishing village around a curved harbour, its serpentine-stone cottages set below the wild eastern cliffs.

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Chocolate-box village of thatched cottages on the wooded Helford River, its creeks the setting for du Maurier's smuggling tales.

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Cornwall's northernmost parish above dramatic cliffs, tied to the eccentric Victorian vicar-poet Robert Hawker and his clifftop hut.

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Tiny, remote Roseland fishing village folded into a steep-sided valley above an aquamarine cove.

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

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

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

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

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Small north-coast cove hemmed by some of Cornwall's highest cliffs, a tiny beach settlement on the South West Coast Path.

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

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Historic stannary town on the River Fowey below Restormel Castle, known for antique shops and a fine medieval bridge.

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Cornwall's highest village, on Bodmin Moor beside the Hurlers stone circles and the balanced granite of the Cheesewring.

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