John’s guidebook

John
John’s guidebook

Food & Drink

Friendly local pub with views across the harbour and to Flushing
33 residents recomanen
The Working Boat
33 residents recomanen
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.
76 residents recomanen
Hooked on the rocks
Swanpool Road
76 residents recomanen
Seafood 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.
36 residents recomanen
Muddy Beach
Commercial Road
36 residents recomanen
Relaxed 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.
57 residents recomanen
Harbour Lights Restaurant
Arwenack Street
57 residents recomanen
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.
Great place to sit with a beer and dream about living aboard one of the boats you can see below you in the marina.
6 residents recomanen
UpperDeck Falmouth
North Parade
6 residents recomanen
Great 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 St
Closest 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 Lane
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.
Tin mining history a few miles from us
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.
16 residents recomanen
Carn Brea
16 residents recomanen
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.
11 residents recomanen
Argal Reservoir
11 residents recomanen
Kennall Vale
Kennall Vale

Sightseeing

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
114 residents recomanen
Museu Marítim Nacional de Cornualla
Discovery Quay
114 residents recomanen

Arts and entertainment

The first polytechnic in the UK, this building now offers art exhibitions, theatre and independent films.
57 residents recomanen
The Poly
24 Church St
57 residents recomanen
The first polytechnic in the UK, this building now offers art exhibitions, theatre and independent films.
40 residents recomanen
Phoenix Falmouth Cinema
11 Berkeley Vale
40 residents recomanen