St Ives
St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times, it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial emphasis, and the town is now primarily a popular seaside resort. It is notable in achieving the title of Best UK Seaside Town from the British Travel Awards in both 2010 and 2011. It was named best seaside town of 2007 by The Guardian newspaper.
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Worth seeing in and around St Ives
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.
- 01Tate St Ives
Tate St Ives is an art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall, England, exhibiting work by modern British artists with links to the St Ives area. The Tate also took over management of another museum in the town, the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, in 1980.
500 m · art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall · Wikipedia - 02Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden
The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in St Ives, Cornwall preserves the 20th-century sculptor Barbara Hepworth's studio and garden much as they were when she lived and worked there. She purchased the site in 1949 and lived and worked there for 26 years until her death in a fire on the premises in 1975.
300 m · sculpture museum in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St 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.
4.9 km · church in Hayle, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St Ia's Church, St Ives
St Ia's Church, St Ives, is a parish church in the Church of England in St Ives, Cornwall, UK. It is dedicated to Ia of Cornwall, a 5th- or 6th-century Irish saint, and is a Grade I listed building.
200 m · church in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Leach Pottery
The Leach Pottery was founded in 1920 by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada in St Ives, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. The buildings grew from an old cow / tin-ore shed in the 19th century to a pottery in the 1920s with the addition of a two-storey cottage added on to the lower end of the pottery, followed by a completely separate cottage at the top of the site added by Leach in 1927.
1.1 km · Pottery and museum in St Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Tregenna Castle
Tregenna Castle ) in St Ives, Cornwall, was built by John Stephens in the 18th century and is named after the hill on which it stands. The estate was sold in 1871 and became a hotel, a purpose for which it is still used today.
700 m · English country house in St. Ives, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07St 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.
5.1 km · church in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08St 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.
4 km · church of Lelant, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Trink Hill
Trink Hill is a 212-metre-high hill that lies between the hamlets of Trink and Cripplesease, near to the village of Nancledra. Trencrom Hill lies one kilometre to the South East.
3.5 km · hill in west Cornwall, England · Wikipedia - 10The 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.
5 km · public house in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to St Ives
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 200 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 211 km · Bristol (BRS), 234 km
- Stations
- St Ives railway station, 300 m · Lelant railway station, 4.3 km · Carbis Bay railway station, 1.9 km · Lelant Saltings railway station, 4.5 km · St Erth railway station, 5.1 km
- Cardiff → St Ives215 km · quickest by road, 5h 14m · £32–42
- Bristol → St Ives246 km · quickest by road, 4h 30m · £27–36
- London → St Ives403 km · quickest by road, 7h 4m · £41–55
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No local-transport research exists yet for St Ives
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 St Ives. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to St Ives
- Hayletown and civil parish in west Cornwall, England5.5 km
- St Erthvillage and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom5.9 km
- Towednackhamlet and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK3.6 km
- Lelantvillage in Cornwall, England, UK4.1 km
- Carbis Bayvillage in Cornwall, United Kingdom1.9 km
- Amalebravillage in Cornwall, United Kingdom5 km