Trevaunance Cove

Trevaunance has a wild, rugged feel, set between dark cliffs in a landscape that forms part of Cornwall's National Landscape. The beach is shingle at the top with sand opening out as the tide falls, and the whole cove sits at the foot of the valley that runs down from the village of St Agnes above.

Its history is written into the rocks. The cove was once a working harbour, its large breakwater patched and rebuilt over many years before finally being given up around the time of the First World War; at low tide you can still find the great granite blocks that built it scattered beneath the cliffs on the western side. This was tin and copper country, and the surrounding mine remains now form part of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site, with ore still worked using traditional water power up the valley at Trevellas Coombe.