Towednack
Towednack is a churchtown and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Towednack is a churchtown and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish is bounded by those of Zennor in the west, Gulval in the south, Ludgvan in the west and south, and St Ives and the Atlantic Ocean in the north and east. The church is about two miles (3 km) from St Ives and six miles (10 km) from Penzance.
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Worth seeing in and around Towednack
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.
3.6 km · art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall · Wikipedia - 02Chysauster Ancient Village
Chysauster Ancient Village is a late Iron Age and Romano-British village of courtyard houses in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, which is currently in the care of English Heritage. The village included eight to ten houses, each with its own internal courtyard.
3.6 km · archaeological site in New Mill, Cornwall, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Barbara 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.
3.7 km · sculpture museum in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St Senara's Church, Zennor
St Senara's Church, in Zennor Churchtown, Cornwall, England, UK, is the parish church of the parish of Zennor. It is in the Deanery of Penwith, Archdeaconry of Cornwall, and Diocese of Truro.
3.4 km · church in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St 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.
3.7 km · church in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Leach 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.
2.6 km · Pottery and museum in St Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Tregenna 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.
3.3 km · English country house in St. Ives, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Trink 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.
1.9 km · hill in west Cornwall, England · Wikipedia - 09St Ives Guildhall
St Ives Guildhall is a municipal structure in Street An Pol, St Ives, Cornwall, England. The structure, which is the meeting place of St Ives Town Council, is a locally listed heritage asset.
3.7 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia - 10Carbis 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.
3.9 km · railway viaduct at Carbis Bay, Cornwall, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Towednack
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 203 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 210 km · Bristol (BRS), 237 km
- Stations
- St Ives, 3.5 km · St Ives railway station, 3.6 km
- Cardiff → Towednack218 km · quickest by road, 5h 18m · £32–42
- Bristol → Towednack249 km · quickest by road, 4h 34m · £27–36
- London → Towednack406 km · quickest by road, 7h 9m · £41–55
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No local-transport research exists yet for Towednack
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 Towednack. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Penzance, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Towednack
- Zennorcivil parish in Cornwall, England, UK3.4 km
- Carbis Bayvillage in Cornwall, United Kingdom4 km
- Amalebravillage in Cornwall, United Kingdom2.4 km
- Nancledravillage in Cornwall, England, UK2.4 km
- Halsetownvillage in Cornwall, United Kingdom1.9 km
- Hellesveorhamlet in Cornwall, England, UK2.2 km