The Top 20 Natural Monuments around Portreath
Portreath’s landscape is a beautiful place to explore — something that you can best experience by visiting one of our 20
beautiful natural monuments around Portreath. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
beautiful natural monuments around Portreath. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
Last updated: November 16, 2025
Godrevy Cove
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Godrevy Head at the eastern end of St Ives Bay, overlooking Godrevy Island and its lighthouse, offers one of Cornwall's most beautiful sunsets. The lighthouse on Godrevy Iceland is said …
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Basset's Cove
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GB: Basset's Cove provides a good overview of the high cliff with its narrow beach area. The sides of the cove are weathered to varying degrees, so that some parts …
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Cadjack Cove
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GB: In Cadjack Cove, in addition to large faults, many folds can be seen. These folds are formed in different scales ranging from a few inches to several hundred feet. …
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Mirrose Well Cove
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GB: In the lower Mirrose Well Cove one finds deposits with repeated sequences. In each sequence, a gradation of the layers can be observed, with the grain size decreasing from …
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Stone Wall of Regional Rocks
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GB: In the surrounding area, small walls made of regional rocks, mostly greywackes and clay shales, can be found in several places. The rocks are already described in the geological …
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Periglacial Deposits (Raised Beach)
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GB: These deposits are the youngest, with a maximum of 3 million years (Quaternary period). The unsorted layers with the large rounded rock fragments date back to the last great …
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St Agnes Head
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The views from St Agnes Head are enchanting and stretch for miles. The serene and atmospheric headland is home to lots of wildflowers in summer and Chapel Porth beach, Wheal …
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Hell's Mouth Cliffs
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From the cliffs above Hell’s Mouth, you get a spectacular view out to sea. The dark cove, situated underneath a sheer rock face, has been the subject of much tragedy …
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Ralph's Cupboard
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To the west of this bay, a rock wall protrudes into the bay and divides it. This wall is the result of long-term erosion, which led to the collapse of …
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Godrevy Heritage Coast
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The section of coastline between Godrevy and Portreath is a heritage coast and it offers stunning views across the dramatic cliffs, sea and down to the wide sandy beach of …
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Gwennap Pit
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Gwennap Pit was used by the renowned cleric John Wesley to give preaches from 1762 until 1789. Its unusual form is thought to be caused to a collapsed abandoned mine …
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