John’s guidebook
Food & Drink
Friendly local pub with views across the harbour and to Flushing
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The Working Boat
Friendly local pub with views across the harbour and to Flushing
Seafood at Swanpool Beach. High-end quality menu, overlooking the sea. You can also drop in for a coffee and enjoy the view.
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Hooked on the rocks
Swanpool RoadSeafood at Swanpool Beach. High-end quality menu, overlooking the sea. You can also drop in for a coffee and enjoy the view.
Relaxed local hangout down by the quay. Overlooks the pontoons and the liveaboards on the Penryn River.
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Muddy Beach
Commercial RoadRelaxed local hangout down by the quay. Overlooks the pontoons and the liveaboards on the Penryn River.
Award-winning fish and chips. Eat in, or take your food out onto Custom House Quay and watch the boats. Alternatively, The Waterfront pub allows you to bring food in.
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Harbour Lights Restaurant
Arwenack StreetAward-winning fish and chips. Eat in, or take your food out onto Custom House Quay and watch the boats. Alternatively, The Waterfront pub allows you to bring food in.
Great place to sit with a beer and dream about living aboard one of the boats you can see below you in the marina.
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UpperDeck Falmouth
North ParadeGreat place to sit with a beer and dream about living aboard one of the boats you can see below you in the marina.
Closest shop for all your basics: bread, bananas, beer, cash... Lower Market Street, opposite the Post Office, and next to Mariners fish & chips.
Spar
58-60 Lower Market StClosest shop for all your basics: bread, bananas, beer, cash... Lower Market Street, opposite the Post Office, and next to Mariners fish & chips.
Good walks, and mining history
Hill of Horses in Kernewek, Carn Marth has some old mining and quarrying sites, and panoramic view from the top. This engine house is at the bottom of a track which leads up past the amphitheatre in an old quarry, to a beautiful flooded quarry at the summit.
Carn Marth Amphitheatre
Carn Marth LaneHill of Horses in Kernewek, Carn Marth has some old mining and quarrying sites, and panoramic view from the top. This engine house is at the bottom of a track which leads up past the amphitheatre in an old quarry, to a beautiful flooded quarry at the summit.
Pascoe's Engine Houses. South Wheal Frances
Tin mining history a few miles from us
Walk The Great Flat Lode Trail around and up Carn Brea, centre of the old tin mining district. The monument on the top is to Francis Bassett, Lord De Dunstanville, an influential mine owner.
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Carn Brea
Walk The Great Flat Lode Trail around and up Carn Brea, centre of the old tin mining district. The monument on the top is to Francis Bassett, Lord De Dunstanville, an influential mine owner.
Argal Reservoir
Kennall Vale
Kennall ValeSightseeing
Things to do, places to go...
Lots of towns have a park and ride, we have a park and float. Leave your car and cruise into Falmouth on a boat.
Penryn TR11 2SE
park and float/ride
Lots of towns have a park and ride, we have a park and float. Leave your car and cruise into Falmouth on a boat.
Penryn TR11 2SE
National Maritime Museum Cornwall
Discovery QuayArts and entertainment
The first polytechnic in the UK, this building now offers art exhibitions, theatre and independent films.
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The Poly
24 Church StThe first polytechnic in the UK, this building now offers art exhibitions, theatre and independent films.
Phoenix Falmouth Cinema
11 Berkeley Vale