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Lelant

Lelant or Uny Lelant is a village in the civil parish of St Ives in, west Cornwall, England, UK.

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Lelant or Uny Lelant is a village in the civil parish of St Ives in, west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on the west side of the Hayle Estuary, about 2+1⁄2 miles (4.0 km) southeast of St Ives and one mile (1.6 km) west of Hayle. The village is part of the Lelant and Carbis Bay ward on Cornwall Council, and also the St Ives Parliamentary constituency. The birth, marriage, and death registration district is Penzance. Its population at the 2011 census was 3,892 The South West Coast Path, which follows the coast of south west England from Somerset to Dorset passes through Lelant, along the estuary and above Porth Kidney Sands.

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Getting to Lelant

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 200 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 207 km · Bristol (BRS), 233 km
  • Cardiff → Lelant
    214 km · quickest by road, 5h 5m · £31–42
  • Bristol → Lelant
    244 km · quickest by road, 4h 21m · £27–36
  • London → Lelant
    401 km · quickest by road, 6h 56m · £41–55
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Lelant. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere's also a helicopter service, using a 10-seater AW169.
  • Get inAdult fare is from £80 each way, day-trip £120 by "Skybus" and from £120 each way, day-trip £220 by helicopter.
  • Get inis at the bottom end of town by the bus station, and a short walk from the ferry terminal.
  • Get inA ferry plies between Penzance and the Isles of Scilly, daily from mid-March to October.
  • Get inThe ferry (Scillonian III) leaves Penzance around 9AM to reach the main island of St Mary's at noon; it returns at 4:30PM for 7:15PM.

From Wikivoyage: Penzance, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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  3. 03
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  4. 04
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    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

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  5. 05
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    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

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