Stones
Lanyon Quoit stood on the Penwith landscape for more than five thousand years, until it fell down in 1815. A few years later they put it back up again and, though somewhat diminished in height and facing a different direction, it remains an imposing testament to the Neolithic people who built it.
We’ve added two Lanyon [...]
Barbara Hepworth Museum & Sculpture garden
The Sculptor Barbara Hepworth lived and worked in St Ives from 1949 until her death in 1975. Along with her husband, the painter Ben Nicholson, she was one of the community of artists that became known as the St Ives School.
Since 1980 Hepworth’s Trewyn Studios has been run by the Tate as the Barbara Hepworth [...]
St Ives virtual tour
Earlier this year in July, on one of those days when the sun decided to make an all-day appearance, we went to St Ives and got busy producing panoramas of all the interesting things there are to see there. It’s taken a while, but we’re very pleased with the results which you can now see [...]
Falmouth Tall Ships Regatta
If you have a few hours to spare over the next couple of days, get yourself down to Falmouth for the Funchal 500 Tall Ships Regatta which is taking place until Saturday September 13. As well as being able to see these fantastic ships up close, there’s a massive programme of events taking place in [...]
Porthcurno mini-tour
We’ve just completed a mini-tour for Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, based on the virtual tour that appears on the website. Porthcurno wanted a way to show visitors parts of the museum where access is difficult.
The escape stairs at the underground communications centre were built to provide an emergency exit from the tunnels in the event of [...]
We’ve been to church
According to the BBC, the General Synod of the Church of England has approved a proposal to make churches more accessible to tourists. We’re all for that, and we’re doing our bit to raise the profile of Cornish churches by including as many as we can on Lookaround Cornwall.
We already have some panoramas of Truro [...]
Helsbury Park
Helsbury Park is the UK’s leading dog-friendly, self-catering holiday accommodation. It offers luxury, dog-friendly holiday cottages with access to around 100 acres of unspoilt woodland, open pasture and river frontage in the heart of North Cornwall.
On Lookaround Cornwall you can take in the magnificent expanse of Helsbury’s prime dog-walking countryside, experience the quiet, reflective peace [...]
Polruan
Polruan is a quiet, unspoilt Cornish village that tumbles down a steep hill on the Eastern side of the Fowey estuary. It’s surrounded by water on three sides so, once you’ve arrived, there’s nowhere else to go - except across on the ferry to bigger, busier and better-known Fowey on the opposite bank. Or you [...]
Lower Barn, St Ewe
Tucked away at the end of a narrow country lane, Lower Barn, on the edge of the Roseland peninsula, is a secluded retreat where it’s easy to forget the rest of the world exists. If getting away from it all is your aim, this is the place to come. If you want to explore, Lower [...]
Lostwithiel
Lostwithiel is one of Cornwall’s most ancient and historic towns. It has castle, a Mediaeval church and a Tudor Bridge and was the scene of two English Civil War battles. We visited at a more peacful time - on the day of the Lostwithiel Festival. As well as strangely dressed men dancing with big sticks, [...]