Special Attractions:

The Eden Project      The National Trust      The National Aquarium      

The Monkey Sanctuary:  Near Looe (3 miles)
The first protected colony of Amazon woolly monkeys in the world.

The Paul Corin Musical Collection:  St.Keyne (3 miles)
World famous collection of instruments from the golden age of automatic music.

The Land of Legend and Model Village: Polperro (8 miles)
Animated models illustrating Cornwall's ancient traditions and a miniature replica of Polperro village.

Smugglers Museums: Polperro (8 miles) and Mevagissey (25 miles)

The Forest Railroad Park and Thorburn Gallery: Dobwalls (6 miles)
National award winning theme park based on the Union Pacific and Rio Grande Railroads of America.
Also superb exhibition of bird paintings by Thorburn.

The Cornish Seal Sanctuary: Gweek (48 miles)
Founded in 1958 to conserve the Grey Atlantic Seal around the West Country against pollution, natural hazards
and man made destructions.

Cornwall Aero Park and Flambards Village: Helston (52 miles)
BTA award winning family leisure parks and exhibition centre. Includes Battle of Britain war gallery and World War 1
SE5A  through to the supersonic Concorde flight deck and Falklands war etc. Exhibition of air sea rescue and motor cars
 from 1911 to 1956. Flambards village features the old world of cobbled streets, carriages and fashions.

Poldark Mine: Helston (52 miles)
An old tin mine now a  brilliantly lit complex of underground tunnels, chambers and caves.

The Devon Shire Horse Centre: Yealmpton (18 miles)
Traditional Devon livestock farm worked with shire horses. Includes craftsmen's workshops, blacksmiths forge, saddler, potter, and carpenter. Horses, foals, harnesses and farm machinery.

The living past: Morwellham (18 miles)
Morwellham Quay was once the greatest copper port in Queen Victoria's empire and has been brought back to life to relive
 the bustling boom years of the 1860's. Attractions include tramway ride into underground copper mine, riverside and woodland trails, working waterwheels, quays and raised railways, hydro-electric power station, 19th century farm with animals and implements, blacksmiths, coopers and assayers workshops, 19th century cottage, children's playground and picnic areas.

East Looe Trust Museum: (3½ miles)
The 16th century old guildhall containing an exhibition of Looe's history from the Doomsday Book  (1086/7) to the present, including ancient relics of stocks, smuggling, fishing industry and maritime interest.

Lanreath Mill and Farm Museum: (7 miles)
Old farm machinery, local crafts, demonstrations in glass engraving, spinning and corn dollies.

Tropical Bird and Butterfly Gardens: Padstow (30 miles)

North Cornwall Museum and Gallery: Camelford (28 miles)
Winner of the Pilgrim Trust Award for best small museum in England 1978.

River Trips
from Plymouth Hoe (15 miles) with its associations with Sir Francis Drake up the River Tamar to
Calstock, Morwhellham and Weir Head and to view the dockyard and warships. Along the coast to Looe and the River Yealm.

From Dartmouth (45 miles) up river past the Royal Naval College, the late Dame Agatha Christie's estate and the
picturesque villages of Dittisham, Stoke Gabriel and Duncannon to Totnes.

From Falmouth (45 miles) to Malpas or Truro viewing Falmouth Docks and Cath, St Just, Mylor, Restronguet and
Pill Creeks, Trelissick House, King Harry Ferry, smugglers cottage and Tregothnan Mansion.

For further area information:
Cornwall Association of Tourist Attractions

We hope this information will be of assistance to you in planning your holiday. 
If there is anything further you wish to know please do not hesitate to contact us 
and we will do our utmost to help.....
Martin & Sylvia Eades