Jestyn G18: Self Catering St Ives Bay, Hayle

The beautiful coastal walks around the county of Cornwall are truly breathtaking with its rugged cliffs, sandy beaches and sheltered fishing coves - there is nowhere quite like it. CORNISH GARDENS TREVARNO GARDENS, Helston. Privatly owned Tudor and Stuart Grade 1 mansion complete with Elizabethan stables. Surrounded by formal gardens (c.1500), orchards and bluebell woods. GODOLPHIN HOUSE AND GARDENS Godolphin Cross Helston The house has an example of an early 13C - 15C side garden. Also a compartmented 4.5 acre, nine square garden with raised walk surrounding it. The walled King's Garden 15C next to the state apartments. Privatly owned Tudor and Stuart Grade 1 mansion complete with Elizabethan stables.Surrounded by formal gardens (c.1500), orchards and bluebell woods. ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT, House and Gardens, Marizion, Penzance. The jewel in Cornwall's crown, this magical island has a church, a medieval castle (home of the St Aubyn family for over 300 years), an exotic garden clinging to the steep flanks, and an ancient harbour where you will find shops, restaurants and an audio-visual presentation on the history of the Mount. POLDOWRIAN, Coverack, Helston. Woodland garden created among natural wild plants with a spectacular cliff top views with a pre-historic museum which is opened on request. TRENGWAINTON, Nr Penzance. Following a stream, this intimate woodland garden with its rich collection of rhododendrons, magnolias and camellias leads up to a terrace with splendid views of Mount's Bay. Walled gardens contain tender species not seen elsewhere on mainland Britain. BONYTHON, Cury Cross Lanes, Helston A 15 acre garden within a valley with 3 lakes and formal walled garden. Includes a camelia woodland, set in a disused quarry. TREBAH Twenty-six acre, steeply wooded ravine garden falls 200 feet from the eighteenth-century house down to the beach & river. Glades of huge sub-tropical tree ferns and palms mingle with giant gunnera, furcraea and echium, and over all is the great rolling canopy of 100 year old rhododendrons and a multitude of trees and shrubs with everchanging colour and scent.... GLENDURGAN Set in a wooded valley dropping steeply to the hamlet of Durgan on the shore of the beautiful Helford estuary, Glendurgan is one of the great sub-tropical gardens of the South West. Exotic trees and shrubs flourish amidst open glades carpeted with wild flowers... THE EDEN PROJECT.Cornwall's best known attraction. The site consists of 2 vast landscaped space age greenhouses, or biomes, containing a variety of temperate and tropical plants. THEME PARKS CORNISH CAMELS are just down the road from Anhay Farm and Cornish Yurts. PARADISE PARK An award winning bird park around sheltered Victorian walled garden with "Parrot Jungle" and "Australian Aviary" features... FLAMBARDS Rides,amusements and activites. Exhibitions- Victorian Village, Britain in the Blitz and Memory Lane.... CORNISH HERITAGE and SCENIC The engine house of the Levant mine, famous for its rich undersea deposits of both copper and tin, is situated on a cliff edge five miles from Lands End Poldark Mine is located in the picturesque Wendron Valley, close to Helston, Poldark Mine has free admission to the main site and offers something for all the family Geevor Tin Mine, situated on the Atlantic Coast of the far west of Cornwall, is the largest preserved mining site in the United Kingdom Porthcurno Telegraph Museum records the history of the telegraph station and the defensive tunnels built to house it during the Second World War Pendennis Castle Falmouth, was built in the middle of the 16th century by Henry VIII as one of a pair of forts, with St Mawes Castle, to protect the Fal Estuary from the threat of invasion from France and Spain. There is also 'SHIPS AND CASTLES' a water park adjacent. The Tate Gallery St Ives opened in June 1993 in a purpose-built building with five galleries offering an introduction to modern art, with special emphasis on the St Ives School of Art. The National Maritime Museum Falmouth provides an interactive display of boats and their various functions in industry and recreation. Land's End, with its rugged wave battered cliffs, is the most westerly point in mainland England and the most visited outdoor tourist attraction in Cornwall THE ISLES OF SCILLY can be visited by helicoptor from Penzance or plane from St Just Airport. The Sillonian also sails daily during the summer. Views from Trencrom Hill Coverack Harbour and Beach Kynance Cove, The Lizard The Lizard Botallack Mine, St Just The Herford River Men an tol stone (ancient sacred site) Penwith.