Very sheltered and a mix of sand and shingle. My favourite beach to swim when the weather was cooler or when it rained during the summer. From Castle Beach to Swanpool Beach is a short distance of 1.3 miles. An easy walk so on energetic days all 3 beaches could be visited to swim!
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One of the most popular beaches in Falmouth. If I wasn't on Castle Beach I could always be found on Gyllyngvase. Mainly because the cafe here was also a record store and to get out of the heat of the sun you could wonder into the cafe, cool off with an ice cold coke and listen to the very latest L.P's and records. How cool we all though ourselves, sitting in the cafe, listening to the latest records in our bikinis. The owner had such a varied taste in music and it was here II soon came to love The Blues! Sadly the cafe was torn down many years ago and the land sold for apartments.
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Falmouth has 4 main beaches, Castle, Gyllyngvase, Swanpool and Maenporth. As a Rynner (someone born in Penryn the next town to Falmouth) I spent most days during the school summer holidays lazing, swimming, sunbathing and rockpooling on this beach. Most Rynners used this beach as the train that came through Penryn from Truro to Falmouth and it was only a short ride and this is.the closest beach to the train station. It's situated on along side Pendennis Point and is overlooked by Pendennis Castle.
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The Falmouth Hotel sits on the seafront of Gyllyngvase in Falmouth, Cornwall and is one of the many hotels in Falmouth. It's the oldest hotel in Falmouth, opening on 9th. May 1865 providing holiday makers a place to stay. The foundation stone was laid on 6 August 1863, by Robert Tweedy and it cost about £9000.00 ($13,700.00 USD current rates). Growing up in Penryn and |Falmouth as a child I would look in awe at the fine folks staying in this hotel. Oh how I wished I could've stayed there! During my school years at senior school I worked here as a waitress during the school holidays earning pocket money for all those teenage essential things! Many year later in my working life many works functions were held here and at last I got to stay in the hotel, waking up to the sound of the sea and sampling all the facilities the hotel had to offer. As nice as being pampered is I really had no idea why I ever envied the people who I watched come and go here.
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Cornwall has over 400 miles of stunning coastline Portreath takes up just a 1/4 mile of that coastline. Portreath, a small resort with a very narrow harbour located about 5 miles north of Redruth.. Once a busy port, importing coal and exporting copper but now only sheltering the occasional fishing boat. Like many of the beaches on the north coast of Cornwall it's very popular with surfers and body boarders, but not today. Today for Portreath it was very calm.
The Cornish for Portreath is Porth Treth and means sandy cove.
Tags: Cornwall Portreath calm Gull Rock
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