Photos of Land's End Peninsula
and its surroundings

Something for everyone at Hayle, whether you enjoy kitesurfing, windsurfing, swimming, surfing, dog friendly beaches or just sitting on the beach and enjoying the fantastic views. Hayle has miles of golden sands.

Each beach has its own identity and includes several beaches which are dog friendly all year round - Sandy Acres, Mexico Towans, Riviere Towans, Upton Towans and Porthkidney Sands.

Aidan Turner and Eleanor Tomlinson as Ross and Demelza during filming in Autumn 2015 beside West Wheal Owles at Botallack in Cornwall. The mine features as Captain Poldark's Wheal Leisure.

Aidan Turner waiting in the rain for filming to resume for Poldark series two, on location in September 2015 at Botallack on the Land's End peninsula.

Aidan Turner, as Captain Ross Poldark, on the cliffs below West Wheal Owles at Botallack in Autumn 2016 during the filming of Series 3.

An enormous amount of work goes into the production of every scene. The filming alone can take hours for one short scene and that's before the work that takes place after the location work is done.

This lovely woodland is tucked away near Lamorna and St Buryan. Parking is very limited.

You can also access St Loy Woods from the coast path between Penberth Cove and Lamorna.

This delightful cove with its small sandy beach is tucked away a short walk from Pendeen Lighthouse

Boat Cove is a great place to watch the waves. This photograph was taken in April on a windy day a couple of hours before high tide.

In the background is the nearby beach of Portheras Cove that can be accessed by a short walk (1 km) along the coast path.

Cape Cornwall from the Kenidjack Valley. Take in the view as part of a Poldark walk between Botallack and Cape Cornwall.

Chun Quoit in the mist on Penwith Moors

There is a wealth of mining heritage and natural beauty to enjoy at Botallack. This photograph was taken from the area near the arsenic calciner.

Wonderful cliff scenery along the stretch of coastline between St Ives and Zennor. Walk the Cornwall Coast Path to get the best views of this magnificent coastline.

Walking the Cornwall coast path from Levant, you arrive at Botallack with its abundance of mining heritage.

Cliffs near Hellesveor overlooking St Ives Bay

Pednavounder Beach is also known as Treen Beach.

For details of walking the coast path between Porthgwarra to Penberth please click on the photograph.

For details of walking the coast path between Porthgwarra to Penberth please click on the photograph.

Tiny coves between Zennor Head and Gurnard's Head include Pendour and Veor Cove.

Sunbeams highlighting these magnificent engine houses at Botallack.

One of a large group of Eurasian Wigeon on the Hayle River off Porthkidney Sands.

Filming near the Cornwall coast path at West Wheal Owles, Botallack.

This view of Gurnard's Head is taken from Boat Cove at Pendeen.

The headland is the site of an Iron Age Cliff Castle.

This stunning headland is located in the parish of Zennor on the north coast of the Land's End Peninsula

The public footpath taking you from Zennor Churchtown to Zennor Head is an easy way to access the Cornwall Coast Path. The public footpath is level and smooth for the majority of its length so can be accessed by buggies and wheel chairs.

Gwennap Head is a magnificent headland on the south coast of the Land's End peninsula located between Land's End and Porthgwarra.

An NCI lookout is located on Gwennap Head.

In recent years Gwennap Head has been used as a location in the televising of the latest adaptation of Poldark.

Hayle has many wonderful beaches. This beach is Porthkidney Sands and it's a great place to take your four legged friend as it's dog friendly all year round.

The Hayle River meets the sea at Porthkidney Sands. On a sunny day the white sand and the sea combine to give the area a tropical look.

Penzance's Art Deco Outdoor Swimming Pool

The Kenidjack Valley, also known as Nancherrow Valley, extends from the B3306 just outside St Just Churchtown to the sea at Porthledden.

This young kestrel on the Land's End peninsula had emerged from his nest and was scrambling around the cliff preparing to fly for the first time.

One of a brood of three kestrel chicks spotted on the cliffs on the north coast of the Land's End peninsula during 2016

These three kestrel chicks had recently left their nest when we heard them calling for food from their parents on cliffs on the Land's End peninsula.

These fledglings are well camouflaged among the rocks and plants outside their nest.

Ding Dong Mine can be seen in the background.

Lanyon Quoit on a summer morning in June. Ding Dong Mine can be seen on the horizon on the left.

A Neolithic monument known as a Penwith Chamber Tomb.

This beautiful little cove, protected by the National Trust, is hidden away on the south coast of the Land's End peninsula.

Fishing boats still work from Penberth, although they now use an electric winch and not the splendid capstan which stands above the slipway.

The best way to visit Penberth Cove is by walking along the coast path as there is very limited parking in the Penberth Valley.

There are a number of public footpaths which lead to the cove. These can be seen on a good map such as the OS Explorer 102 Land's End Map

Mineral extraction started here in the early 19th century. Gwavas Quarry closed in 1989/90.

This stunningly beautiful beach with its white sand and brilliant blue sea is located on the south coast of the Land's End peninsula just below the Minack Theatre.

Portheras is an isolated cove with a sandy beach. It can be accessed via the coast path by parking near Pendeen Lighthouse or from the small car park at Lower Chypraze Farm.

The beach is dog friendly all year round but please be a responsible dog owner and clear up after your pet.

Tucked away at the end of a valley, this lovely beach can be reached from walking the coast path from Pendeen Lighthouse for about 1 km or from public footpath from Chypraze Farm.

For a map showing where to park please follow the link to our Portheras Cove page.

Portheras Cove on a windy day in April.

For details of where to park please follow the link to our Portheras Cove page

At the end of the Kenidjack Valley is Porthledden Beach and a wonderful view of Cape Cornwall. There were once more than 50 waterwheels working in this valley and one of them was one of the largest in Cornwall.

If you take a walk along the Cornwall coast path in late June until mid July between Porth Nanven and Sennen, you'll encounter these beautiful wildflowers growing at the National Trust's Boscregan Farm.

There are several fields containing Echium plantagineum (Purple Viper's Bugloss) and Glebionis segetum (Corn Marigold)

Vulpes vulpes

During a walk in March, we spotted several seals in the area of Portheras Cove, Boat Cove and Pendeen Lighthouse.

Seal spotted between Pendeen Lighthouse and Boat Cove on the Land's End Peninsula

Most visitors to St Ives will know of its many beautiful beaches but if you walk out along the coast from Porthmeor Beach towards Clodgy Point you'll also notice some secluded, tiny coves with golden sand, tucked away just a short distance from the coast path.

Enjoying life on the water at St Ives

Three of St Ives' wonderful beaches - St Ives Harbour Beach, Porthgwidden and Porthmeor with the Island in the foreground.

St Ives, its beaches and surroundings.

One of St Ives' lovely beaches.

St Levan Churchtown is a tiny hamlet near Porthcurno

In the church yard is the St Levan Stone, a piece of granite split in two which is said to forecast the end of the world.

St Michael's Mount is connected to Marazion by a causeway. At high water the Mount is only accessible by boat. In this photograph, despite it being high tide, you can see the causeway through the clear water.

An Autumn sunset at St Michael's Mount.

Mayon Cliff, site of Maen Cliff Castle, still taking a battering from the Atlantic Ocean over 24 hours after Storm Imogen arrived.

With Sennen being so close to Land's End, there is nothing to protect Sennen from south westerly storms.

Atlantic storms' first landfall is the Land's End and Sennen Cove.

The day after Storm Imogen

Three fledgeling kestrels preparing for their first flight from cliffs on the Land's End peninsula

Hayle estuary on a sunny day the colours with part of Porthkidney Sands and the beginning of Hayle's three miles of golden sands.

The coastline of the Land's End peninsula is spectacular, whether you are on the North or South coast. Porth Chapel and Porthgwarra are on the South coast which has spectacular granite cliffs.

Access is either along the Cornwall Coast Path or by public footpath down the Porth Chapel valley from St Levan Church.

West Wheal Owles, also known as Cargodna Mine, is situated on the cliffs on the right of the photo. The Crowns at Botallack can be seen perched just above the sea on the left of the photo. Between them are the remains of Botallack's numerous mining ventures, all part of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site.

These mines and this stretch of coastline, features prominently in the BBC's latest adaptation of Winston Graham's Poldark saga. West Wheal Owles is featured as Captain Poldark's Wheal Leisure and The Crowns Engine Houses depict Francis Poldark's mine, Grambler.

Viewers of the latest series of Poldark will recognise these two mine engine houses. In the foreground is West Wheal Owles which featured as Wheal Leisure in the Poldark series.

Cornwall's coast path is alive with wildflowers, colourful moths and butterflies and fantastic coastal scenery and beaches. Portheras Cove is on the north coast of the Land's End peninsula. The Cinnabar Moth (Tyria jacobaeae) starts life as the familiar black and yellow striped caterpillar often seen on Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris). Here its moth is perched on a Scabious flower.