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Coastlines

Find your next day by the sea.

Browse Cornwall beaches, harbours, lifeboat stations, and coastal places from one tidy directory.

Small Cornish harbour with fishing boats moored in clear water
Lobster pots, coiled rope and an orange buoy on a quay
Coastal life, illustrated

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Showing 91-117 of 117 coastlines

Places & Species
North Coast
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Sandymouth Beach

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Places & Species
South Coast
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Seaton Beach

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Surf breaking on a stony beach below grassy hills and a building
Places & Species
South Coast
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Sennen

Sennen Sennen was primarily a fishing village where the main trade was the pilchard industry. Nowadays Sennen still has a small fishing fleet but the main source of income is to...

Places & Species
South Coast
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Sharrow Beach

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Places & Species
North Coast

South Fistral Beach

No RNLI Lifeguards are on duty at this beach

Rock pools and sandy beach with a village nestled in a valley behind
Places & Species
North Coast
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St Agnes

St Agnes RNLI The Lifeboat XKalibur - D Class Lifeboat The Lifeboat Station St Agnes is one of seven stations operating a lifeboat funded by viewers of the BBC television progra...

Red inflatable boat on the water in front of a hillside harbour town
Places & Species
North Coast
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St Ives

St Ives St Ives was a busy fishing port but fishing has declined over time. It is now a very popular tourist resort and has an excellent reputation as a centre for art. There ar...

White cottages and a tall stone daymark on a grassy headland above the sea
Places & Species
South Coast

St Just

St Just - Cape Cornwall Cape Cornwall is one of the most westerly points of Cornwall being only a few miles north of Lands End. There is a National Trust car park at the cape fr...

RNLI all-weather lifeboat 17-13 powering through heavy seas with a large white wave at the bow
Places & Species
South Coast
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St Mary's Lifeboat

St Mary's RNLI The Lifeboat The Whiteheads - Severn Class Lifeboat The Lifeboat Station St Mary’s all-weather lifeboat is situated on one of over 100 islands in the Isles of Sci...

Calm bay with a sandy shore and waterfront houses among trees, with one walker
Places & Species
South Coast

St Mawes

St Mawes St Mawes is a popular destination on the Roseland peninsula. From St Mawes you can look across Carrick Roads to Falmouth and Pendennis Castle. Carrick Roads is a natura...

Places & Species
North Coast
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Summerleaze Beach

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Places & Species
South Coast

Swanpool Beach

NO RNLI Lifeguards are on duty

Rocky islet and small rocks surrounded by sea seen from a grassy clifftop
Places & Species
South Coast
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The Lizard

The Lizard The Lizard is the most southerly point of mainland England as is alleged to be the place where the first siting of the Spanish Armada were made. The RNLI has statione...

Places & Species
South Coast

The SeaHoss

The SeaHoss A fabulous historical holiday cottage overlooking Mevagissey Harbour. This lovely seafront Cornish Cottage was built from a shipwreck and is full of history, charact...

Ruined castle walls on a grassy clifftop headland above the sea
Places & Species
North Coast

Tintagel

Tintagel Up until the mid 19th Century Tintagel was known as Trevena. Tintagel and Tintagel Castle are associated with the legends of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Ta...

Places & Species
North Coast
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Tolcarne Beach

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Places & Species
North Coast
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Towan Beach

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Places & Species
North Coast
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Trebarwith Strand Beach

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Places & Species
South Coast
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Tregantle Beach

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Places & Species
South Coast
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Tregonhawke Beach

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Places & Species
North Coast
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Trevaunance Cove

No RNLI Lifeguards are on duty

Sandy beach at low tide with rocks, a stream and a walker near a green headland
Places & Species
North Coast
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Trevone

Trevone Trevone has two beaches. One of the beaches is sandy and the other is rocky. The rocky beach, known as 'Rocky Beach' is a great place for catching crabs or exploring roc...

Long sandy beach with a stream and rocky cliffs under a cloudy sky
Places & Species
North Coast
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Treyarnon

Treyarnon Treyarnon is a popular beach amongst surfers but can also be very dangerous as the tide comes in very quickly on the left hand side. Sea Fishing in Treyarnon area This...

Places & Species
North Coast
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Upton Towans Beach

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Long arched stone bridge over a river with houses on the hill behind
Places & Species
North Coast

Wadebridge

Wadebridge Wadebridge is situated on both sides of the Camel River, 5 miles upstream from Padstow. It was formerly known as Wade until the bridge across the Camel river was comp...

Places & Species
North Coast
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Watergate Bay Beach

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Places & Species
North Coast
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Widemouth Beach

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