Porthleven

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Porthleven is the most southerly working port in Britain, its harbour built from 1811 as a refuge on a wreck-strewn coast. The landmark clock-tower institute stands at the head of the harbour, and the village has earned a name for food in recent years — the Ship Inn sits right on the water. In big Atlantic swells the outer pier takes a battering, which is when the photographers turn up.

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Cornwall National Landscape

You’re inside itNational Landscape near Padstow

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

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South West Coast Path

National Trail

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

here · spans 4 counties

King Charles III England Coast Path

National Trail

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

0.2 km S · spans 24 counties

The Loe

Lake near Porthleven

Cornwall's largest natural freshwater lake, held back from the sea by the shingle bar of Loe Bar near Helston.

2.2 km SE

Church of St Winwaloe, Gunwalloe

Church near Gunwalloe

The 'Church of the Storms', set almost on the beach at Church Cove with its bell tower built into the rock.

6.1 km SE

Halliggye Fogou

Souterrain near Helford

Cornwall's biggest and most intact fogou, a set of stone-walled, slab-roofed passages beneath the Trelowarren estate on the Lizard, left by an Iron Age settlement.

8.6 km E