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Phillack

Phillack is a village in the parish of Hayle, in west Cornwall, England.

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The place

Phillack is a village in the parish of Hayle, in west Cornwall, England. It is about one mile (1.6 km) northeast of Hayle and half-a-mile (0.8 km) inland from St Ives Bay on Cornwall's Atlantic Ocean coast. The village is separated from the sea by a range of high sand dunes known as The Towans.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Phillack

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    St Elwyn's Church, Hayle

    St Elwyn’s Church is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Truro in Hayle, Cornwall, England, UK.

    1 km · church in Hayle, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of Saint Erth, St Erth

    St Erth’s Church, St Erth, is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Truro in St Erth, Cornwall, England, UK.

    3.7 km · church in St Erth, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of Saint Winnear

    St Gwinear's Church, Gwinear is a Grade I listed church in the Church of England in Gwinear, Cornwall.

    3.1 km · church in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Uny's Church, Lelant

    St Uny Church, Lelant, is the Church of England parish church of Lelant, Cornwall, England. It is dedicated to Saint Uny who is also the patron saint of Redruth.

    1.8 km · church of Lelant, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Felicitas and St Piala's Church, Phillack

    St Felicitas and St Piala’s Church, Phillack is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Truro in Phillack, Cornwall, England, UK.

    0 m · church in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Gothian's Church, Gwithian

    St Gothian's Church, Gwithian is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Truro in Gwithian, Cornwall, England, UK. Nothing is known about St Gothian, Gocianus or Gwithian.

    3.6 km · church in Gwithian, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Angarrack Viaduct

    Angarrack railway viaduct crosses the valley of the Angarrack River at Angarrack in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

    2 km · viaduct in Hayle, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    The Bucket of Blood

    The Bucket of Blood is a public house in Phillack, Hayle, Cornwall, owned by St Austell Brewery and currently tenanted by Nick and Tanya Swanson. It is thought to be named after an incident where the landlord brought up a bucket of blood from the building's well.

    100 m · public house in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Carbis Bay Viaduct

    Carbis Bay railway station is on the St Ives Bay Line in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom and serves the village and beach of Carbis Bay, a community that only adopted this name after the arrival of the railway in 1877. Carbis Viaduct is situated on the St Ives side of the station.

    3.8 km · railway viaduct at Carbis Bay, Cornwall, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    The Towans

    Towan is found in many placenames in Cornwall. However, The Towans usually refers to the three-mile stretch of coastal dunes which extends north-east from the estuary of the River Hayle to Gwithian beach with a midpoint near Upton.

    1.7 km · dunes between Hayle and Gwithian Beach in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Phillack

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 197 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 207 km · Bristol (BRS), 231 km
Stations
Lelant railway station, 2.1 km · Carbis Bay railway station, 3.7 km · Lelant Saltings railway station, 2.8 km · St Erth railway station, 3.4 km · Hayle railway station, 1.2 km
  • Cardiff → Phillack
    212 km · quickest by road, 5h 1m · £31–41
  • Bristol → Phillack
    242 km · quickest by road, 4h 18m · £26–35
  • London → Phillack
    399 km · quickest by road, 6h 52m · £40–55
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Phillack

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 Phillack. 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    121 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    296 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    441 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    599 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    631 km

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Around it

Next door to Phillack

  • Hayletown and civil parish in west Cornwall, England1.4 km
  • St Erthvillage and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom3.7 km
  • Lelantvillage in Cornwall, England, UK2.3 km
  • Carbis Bayvillage in Cornwall, United Kingdom3.7 km
  • Gwithianvillage in Cornwall, England, UK3.5 km
  • Angarrackvillage in Cornwall, United Kingdom1.9 km