6 miles — 15 minutes by car
St Michael's Mount
The island castle at Marazion, reached on foot across the causeway at low tide.
You can see the Mount from the Higher Faugan gardens on a clear day. Up close it is a medieval church, a castle and a sub-tropical garden clinging to a granite island in Mount's Bay.
Walk the causeway at low tide and take the boat back at high — check the tide tables before you set out, and book castle entry ahead in summer.
Practical
- Getting there
- 15 minutes by car to Marazion, then causeway or boat
- Plan around
- The tide. Causeway crossings are only possible either side of low water.
- From the house
- Chywoone Hill, Newlyn — 6 miles — 15 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.
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.