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Harbour
View
has superb views of the bustling Newlyn harbour in the foreground, giving
an interesting and endlessly changing picture, extending to St Michaels
Mount, Mounts Bay, and round to the Lizard. Newlyn
is Englands largest fishing port
and home of the historic Newlyn painting School. It has a wonderfully
friendly community spirit with plenty of colourful characters and pubs
and attractions. West
Cornwall is an area of outstanding natural beauty
and has many fine sandy beaches and rocky coves. The scenery varies from
wooded valleys to wild moorland and rugged cliffs. It is an area rich
in history with stone circles and megaliths, and the engine houses of
the tin-mining era. It is famous for its art galleries, festivals, craft
shops and potteries as well as its splendid sub-tropical gardens. Local
places of interest include
St Michaels Mount, Lands End, Sennen, St Ives, the Lizard,
the Helford River, the Tate Gallery (St Ives), the Minack Theatre (Porthcurno),
and many small picturesque villages such as Mousehole and Lamorna just
down the road. Penzance is also the departure point for the Isles of Scilly
either by boat, helicopter or by air from Lands End.
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