Bradt Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly (Slow Travel) Guidebook
Local, characterful guides to Britain's Special Places
by Kirsty FergussonCornwall & The Isles of Scilly Slow Travel guide. Tourist information and holiday advice cover everything from cycling, music, pubs and local food to walks, swimming, surfing and heritage attractions. Features Truro, Penzance, Eden Project, Launceston, Newquay, Bodmin Moor, St Ives, Lizard peninsula, Tremenheere, and the Hayle and Fal estuaries.
Size: 130 X 198 mm
Edition: 4
Number of pages: 432
Bradt Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly Guide
The latest edition of the most comprehensive guide to Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly.
About this guide to Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly
This updated Bradt Cornwall Guidebook, now in a 4th edition, is the most well-established guide to a perennially popular British county. Offering in-depth exploration of both frequently visited and less-well-known destinations that will interest locals as much as newcomers, it is written in a friendly, engaging style and includes up-to-date listings of the best (and sometimes least obvious) places to eat, drink and sleep, appealing to all budgets.
Long popular with discerning travellers and foodies, the boom in staycations and coverage in TV dramas such as Poldark mean that Cornwall enjoys ever-increasing acclaim as a healthy, wholesome destination.
Few places offer such geographical diversity: rugged, storm-lashed north coast and wide, sandy beaches favoured by surfers lie barely a few miles from the south’s sheltered creeks, coves and exotic gardens. Wild moorland is dotted with Neolithic standing stones and mining heritage. And, just 28 miles from Land’s End, the Isles of Scilly offer an exhilarating blend of tropical exoticism and wild isolation.
Cornwall thus possesses an enduring appeal as a year-round destination for visitors of all ages and interests. But such popularity makes it all too easy to overlook the diverse character of the county and its less obvious destinations – which is why taking a Slow approach is so rewarding. As local residents have discovered, treasures of all kinds are revealed when you ditch the car and start investigating what lies immediately beyond the doorstep.
Explore the ‘Cornish Alps’, the lonely Rame peninsula, secret beaches or stone circles lost amid remote-feeling uplands. Glimpse the future of sustainable technologies at the Eden Project. Listen to world-class musicians playing in tiny rural churches. Celebrate the comeback of the chough, Cornwall’s emblematic bird. Wander around Bodmin Moor’s Kerdroya, a classical labyrinth built of Cornish stone hedging. Discover where oysters are still harvested in the traditional way and where the best Cornish ice creams, pasties and cider are made.
The ideal companion for a visit, this updated Bradt Cornwall Guidebook is an invitation to imbibe the region’s rich, diverse delights.
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Contents
GOING SLOW IN CORNWALL & THE ISLES OF SCILLY
LAUNCESTON & THE NORTHEAST
MID-CORNWALL NORTH: THE CAMEL ESTUARY TO HOLYWELL BAY
BODMIN MOOR
SOUTHEAST CORNWALL
THE FOWEY VALLEY & THE CORNISH ALPS
THE MINING HEARTLAND
TRURO & THE FAL ESTUARY
SOUTHWEST CORNWALL: THE LIZARD PENINSULA
PENZANCE, ST IVES & THE PENWITH PENINSULA
THE ISLES OF SCILLY
About the author
Award-winning travel writer Kirsty Fergusson grew up in the West Country, but did not venture across the Tamar until her fifth decade, when the opportunity arose to move to a remote cottage near Land’s End in the far west of Cornwall. Having lived in Greece, Spain and France for many years, Fergusson’s knowledge of the region was unclouded by TV images or the partisan adoration, nostalgia or prejudice that remembered childhood holidays seem to inspire.
So with fresh eyes, an old bicycle and an even older pair of legs, she set out to explore and write about her adopted county with the same open-minded curiosity and Slow Travel ethic that had taken her plant-hunting in Mongolia and pottering around the Latin quarter of Paris.
A keen promoter of the Slow Food movement, Fergusson has twice been appointed to judge in the Food and Farming section of the Royal Cornwall Show.
Reviews
Eye-opening and wonderful
The Sunday Times Magazine
Slow Guides are warm, witty and stuffed with insider knowledge. This new Cornwall edition provides all the practical information you need to slow down and enjoy your surroundings.
Western Morning News
Uses local knowledge to offer readers a guide to an exciting new range of places to visit, eat, sleep or drink.
Western Morning News
Kirsty Fergusson’s writing will enrich your exploration of Cornwall whether you are a resident or visitor.
MYCORNWALL
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