National Trust & English Heritage places in Cornwall

Elegant early 18th-century Queen Anne mansion with formal gardens and woodland on the Tamar estuary.

Historic harbour village on the north Cornwall coast set in a dramatic cliff-flanked inlet.

Wooded valleys, hay meadows and coves on the north shore of the Helford River near Mawnan Smith, with waymarked walks from a National Trust car park free to members.

Iconic clifftop tin mine ruins and UNESCO World Heritage Site on the Cornish coast.

An impressive Iron Age hillfort near Callington with views across the Lynher and Tamar valleys.

A rocky headland near St Just crowned by an 1894 mine chimney, where the Atlantic currents divide, with views over the Brisons and Priest's Cove on the Tin Coast.

Two sandy Roseland beaches that merge at low tide, with Nare Head's wartime bunkers, Mallet's Cottage and Carne Beacon above, and National Trust car parks free to members.

Dramatic north Cornwall coastline with towering sea stacks legendarily used as a giant's stepping stones.

National Trust beach below St Agnes Beacon with a vast low-tide strand, caves, mining ruins on the heathland above, a valley cafe and a car park free to members.

Medieval manor house on the River Tamar with tapestries, terraced gardens and a historic quay.

Golden sands at the mouth of the Gannel estuary near Newquay, backed by dunes and Rushy Green, with the sea cave of Piper's Hole and seasonal RNLI lifeguards.

A remote, very tidal beach at the mouth of the Coombe Valley near Bude, with rock pools, flower-strewn cliffs and traces of a Romano-British and medieval port.

Two Cornish beam engine houses at the heart of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site, with guided tours, a flue tunnel, the EPAL chimney and Michell's whim engine.

National Trust coast, creeks and woods around Fowey harbour, with the Gribbin Daymark, quiet coves at Coombe Haven and Polridmouth, and walks from Coombe Farm.

Subtropical valley garden with a famous laurel maze tumbling down to the Helford River.

Romantic Tudor estate near Helston with reclaimed gardens and Cornish mining heritage.

Beautiful headland with lighthouse, sandy beaches and seal colony on the north Cornwall coast.

Two sandy coves on the Lizard either side of an Iron Age cliff fort, with the medieval Church of the Storms in the dunes, shipwreck legends and a wildlife-rich reedbed.

A big north Cornwall beach near Newquay with towering dunes, Carter's Rocks offshore, an Iron Age cliff castle on the Kelseys and a holy well in a beach cave.

Spectacular Lizard Peninsula beach with turquoise waters, serpentine rock stacks and hidden caves.

Grand Victorian country house near Bodmin with extensive gardens and riverside parkland.

A quiet coastal parish near Polperro with a medieval church, a wooded path down to a secluded cove and the South West Coast Path.

Clifftop fields, the craggy Pencarrow Head and a secluded beach reached by a steep path on the South West Coast Path between Polruan and Lansallos in south-east Cornwall.

Secluded coves, Palace Cove's pilchard cellar and clifftop farmland on the South West Coast Path between Lansallos and Lantic Bay, with a National Trust car park opposite Frogmore Farm.

An elegant 1753 Georgian town house in Launceston, Cornwall's ancient capital.

Restored clifftop tin mine with the oldest working beam engine in Cornwall.

Mainland Britain's most southerly point: sheer cliffs above Polpeor Cove, rare plants, choughs and seals, with a seasonal wildlife watchpoint and Marconi's wireless station a mile along the coast path.

Cliffs near Bude steeped in the story of Parson Hawker, whose driftwood hut on the cliff edge is the smallest building in the Trust's care, with an ancient church and a tea-room by the car park.

A small 1890s fishing harbour on the Lizard Peninsula, set between wildlife-rich cliffs and facing the Atlantic, where the Trust cares for the storm-battered walls and the South West Coast Path dips through.

A small rocky beach north of Bude that opens up to wide sands and rock pools at low tide, with a shipwreck and clifftop views to Lundy.

Cornish estate surrounding Loe Pool, the county's largest natural lake, steeped in Arthurian legend.

A wildlife-rich headland above Polzeath with Iron Age ramparts at the Rumps, views from Pentire Point across Padstow Bay, a sandy cove for rock pooling and a cafe and orchard by the main car park.

A sheltered sandy surfing beach on the Lizard's west coast, backed by dunes, with a beach cafe and the site of Marconi's radio experiments on the cliff above.

A sheltered former fishing inlet on the north Cornwall coast, with the Doyden Castle folly on its headland and the South West Coast Path running through the hamlet.

Towan beach, Froe creek woodland paths and a 700-year-old farm settlement with a concession cafe on the Roseland coast path between Portscatho and St Anthony Head.

A white shell-sand beach on a turquoise bay near Land's End, where early undersea telegraph cables came ashore, with a short circular walk to views of the Minack Theatre and Logan Rock.

A dramatic sandy beach with twisted cliffs and waterfalls near Bude in North Cornwall.

A heather and gorse clifftop above the Atlantic near St Agnes, with a Coastwatch lookout, Second World War remains, Dark Sky stargazing and coast path loops towards Wheal Coates and St Agnes Beacon.

Scenic Roseland Peninsula headland with a 19th-century lighthouse and wartime gun battery remains.

Tidal island off Marazion with a medieval castle, subtropical gardens and a causeway passable at low tide.

Cornwall's highest south-coast headland, ringed by an Iron Age earthwork, with a 1794 watch house, a granite cross for sailors and a path down to Hemmick beach.

14th-century stone longhouse in Tintagel with a famously wavy roof, once a Victorian post office.

Subtropical garden above the Fal estuary with exotic planting and sweeping river views.

Subtropical garden near Penzance with rare plants, walled gardens and sweeping views across Mount's Bay.

Hidden Elizabethan manor near Newquay with ornate plasterwork and a Cornish apple orchard.

Thatched Penponds cottage where steam pioneer Richard Trevithick grew up, opened by the National Trust one afternoon a week for free pre-booked tours.

North Cornwall's most prominent headland near Padstow, with the dramatic Round Hole, Trevose Lighthouse, rare cliff plants and far-reaching views along the coast path.

Iconic clifftop tin mine ruins near St Agnes, part of Cornwall's Mining World Heritage Site.

A Bronze Age cliff-top tomb near St Just, excavated and rebuilt by a Victorian antiquarian, with wide sea views towards Cape Cornwall.

Iron Age and Romano-British village remains in west Cornwall, with stone courtyard houses and a walk-through underground fogou.

Chysauster Ancient Village reveals how a small Romano-British community lived in the hills above Penzance between the first and third centuries AD.

A granite holy well-house of about 1510 near Callington, with a slab roof, a bell turret and the spring still flowing through its old bathing basin.

A 30-metre Iron Age underground passage of massive stone slabs on the Trelowarren Estate on the Lizard, reached by a woodland walk.

Two bastions and a curtain wall from an unfinished fort begun in 1551, overlooking St Mary's harbour.

Three prehistoric stone circles in a row on Bodmin Moor near Minions, said in legend to be men turned to stone for hurling on a Sunday.

Two Bronze Age chambered cairns overlooking the coast of St Mary's, including a particularly well-preserved upper tomb.

Two carved 9th-century cross shafts near St Cleer, one inscribed for Doniert, a Cornish king who drowned around AD 875.

A distinctive medieval keep above Launceston, with town views and archaeological displays.

A Tudor artillery blockhouse above Old Grimsby harbour, with broad views across Tresco's eastern coast.

Henry VIII’s coastal fortress above Falmouth, with historic guns, wartime stories and sea views.

A Bronze Age entrance grave on St Mary's, with a stone-lined passage, chamber and surrounding kerb.

Cornwall's largest and heaviest prehistoric standing stone, a leaning 16.75-tonne monolith on the open heath of St Breock Downs near Wadebridge.

Island and mainland castle ruins linked to Arthurian legend, joined by a footbridge above the Cornish coast.

A roadside prehistoric entrance grave near St Buryan, with capstones over a stone-lined chamber and a cast of a rare cup-marked portal slab, close to the Merry Maidens.

A tall Neolithic portal dolmen near St Cleer, with five standing stones beneath a steeply tilted 20-tonne capstone.