1.5 miles — 5 minutes by car
Penzance
The town, the trains, the Jubilee Pool, and the boat to the Isles of Scilly.
Penzance is where the practical things are: the station at the end of the Great Western line, the Scillonian sailing to St Mary's, Chapel Street, and the Jubilee Pool — a 1935 art deco lido, part of it geothermally heated.
It is five minutes from the house, which makes arriving by train entirely sensible.
Practical
- Getting there
- 5 minutes by car; regular buses from Newlyn
- Best for
- Trains, the Jubilee Pool, Chapel Street, the Scilly ferry and helicopter
- From the house
- Chywoone Hill, Newlyn — 1.5 miles — 5 minutes by car
Also within reach
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.