| St Ives Lighthouse |
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This white cast iron lighthouse, really more of a lookout and navigational aid for fishing boats, was built at the end of Smeaton's Pier when it was extended in the late Eighteenth Century. The original lookout, built by the eponymous John Smeaton, now occupies a spot halfway along the pier. If you turn and look landwards along the pier you can see it. Smeaton is most well known as the designer of the third Eddystone lighthouse in the mid 18th Century. At the entrance to the pier stands the tiny fisherman's chapel of St Leonard's. |
St Ives Market Place
Market Place is at the top of Fore Street, A long, gently sloping, narrow throroughfare lined on either side with shops.
St Ives Court Cocking
Despite the lewd-sounding name, Court Cocking is a reference to a place where boats were once kept.
St Ives Bunkers Hill
At the lower end of Fore Street is the Junction with Bunkers Hill which leads to Porthmeor Beach and Tate St Ives.
St Ives Smeaton's Pier
Here on the seaward side of Smeaton's Pier you get a spectacular view of the pier and harbour.
St Ives Island
They call it the Island, but it is, in fact, a peninsulal offering spectacular views of the Atlantic and St Ives.
St Ives Sloop Inn
This view from outside the Sloop Inn gives you a good idea of what St Ives is like in mid-summer.
St Ives
St Ives is one of Cornwall's most popular holiday destinations and it's not hard to see why.
