Cornwall is located in the South West of Great Britain. Photos of West Cornwall and Penwith include Cornish landscape, coast, bays, beaches, sea, harbours, fishing ports, towns, villages and their festivals. The following pictures were taken in Summer and at Christmas time.

Thatched house in Penzance

Getting stormy, Penzance

View of Mount's Bay from the hills over Penzance

The sun fighting with clouds over Mount's Bay

St Mary's church towering over Penzance

Sunset over Cornwall

St Michael's Mount seen from the Penzance beach

The causeway to St Michael's Mount. When it's covered with water at high tide, it's possible to get there only by boat.

St Michael's Mount, Marazion

St Ives harbour

One of the pubs, St Ives

Porthminster Beach in St Ives

I hate experimenting with food but dared to taste this traditional Cornish pasty. Quite good!

It's often fairly stormy in St Ives

A cemetery on the cliffs, St Ives

Porthmeor Beach, on the other side of the cape, St Ives

Good weather for surfers at Porthmeor Beach

Falmouth harbour

Lafrowda Festival is celebrated annually in St Just

A shipwreck on the Land's End cliffs

Lands End, the most westerly corner of England

Streets of Truro at dusk

Truro Cathedral at Christmas

The interior of Truro Cathedral

Christmas lights, Mousehole

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