Explore Cornwall

You are already at the far end of the country

Higher Faugan sits above Newlyn, which puts almost all of West Penwith within half an hour. These are the places we actually send guests, with the practical detail that makes them work.

A walk downhill — 10 minutes

Newlyn

Britain's biggest fishing port by value of catch, and the reason the painters came.

2 miles — 6 minutes by car

Mousehole

A granite village around a harbour the size of a courtyard, and the best Christmas lights in Cornwall.

6 miles — 15 minutes by car

St Michael's Mount

The island castle at Marazion, reached on foot across the causeway at low tide.

The Minack Theatre carved into the cliff above Porthcurno beach

9 miles — 20 minutes by car

Porthcurno & the Minack Theatre

Turquoise water below granite cliffs, and an open-air theatre cut into the cliff above it.

1.5 miles — 5 minutes by car

Penzance

The town, the trains, the Jubilee Pool, and the boat to the Isles of Scilly.

Porthcurno's turquoise water and granite cliffs below the Minack Theatre

10 miles — 22 minutes by car

Land's End & Sennen Cove

The end of the country, and the surf beach just before it.

10 miles — 25 minutes by car

St Ives

Tate St Ives, the Barbara Hepworth garden, and four beaches within a few hundred yards.

From Penzance — ferry or helicopter

Isles of Scilly

Twenty-eight miles out into the Atlantic, and worth a whole day of your stay.

Local-area photography on these pages is of the places themselves, never of Higher Faugan.