St Just
St Just is England’s most westerly town, seven miles north west of Penzance, off the north coast. The centre of the tin and copper industry in the early 19th century, when it grew dramatically, it is an unpretentious but lively working town with rows of granite miners’ cottages, a fine Methodist chapel and 15th century church.
Two spacious squares contain a wealth of inns, shops and arts and crafts galleries, all within easy walking distance of a free car park. The grassed plen-an-gwary at the heart of the town is one of only two surviving outdoor medieval amphitheatres in Cornwall, allegedly the oldest working theatre in Britain.
Just beyond is the gloriously wild and spectacular heritage coast and path leading to the UK’s most important and visually imposing mining monuments - Geevor (exceptional tin mining site with underground tour), Levant (with working beam engine) and the famous Crowns engine houses and arsenic works at Botallack).
Cape Cornwall, with its hill-top ornamental chimney, offers splendid views and a spectacularly located golf course/country club. Ancient sites, like Ballowall Barrow (2500-1500 BC burial chamber at the cliff edge), and the giant boulders and raised beach at the end of Cot Valley, are easily accessible.
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