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Cornwall

Chris Thaxter | Cot Valley Cornwall

Cot Valley Cornwall

Cot Valley (Porth Nanven) Cornwall. Just outside St. Just in Cornwall. Cot Valley reaches the sea at the lovely Porth Nanven Cove , with the Brisons Rocks lying one mile offshore.
Chris Thaxter | Horses on Beach at Kennack 2

Horses on Beach at Kennack 2

2 horses enjoying the waves, water and sand on the beach at Kennack Sands Cornwall
Chris Thaxter | Horses on Beach at Kennack

Horses on Beach at Kennack

2 horses enjoying the water and waves and sand of Kennack Sands in Cornwall.
Chris Thaxter | Old Lifeboat station Lizard

Old Lifeboat station Lizard

A black and white image of the old lifeboat station at the lizard. The derelict lifeboat station at Polpeor Cove on the Lizard Peninsula with the remains of the slipway. Lizard Point is further round.
Chris Thaxter | Lizard Cornwall

Lizard Cornwall

A black and white image of Lizard Point in Cornwall. You can see the old slipway of the old lifeboat station. The Lizard is the most southerly place in Britain.
Chris Thaxter | Minack Theatre Seating

Minack Theatre Seating

Rowena Cade decided to build an outdoor theatre in 1932. She designed the Minack and built a lot of it herself. She invented a way of making the theatre look like stone, even though most of it is made from concrete and cement. She decorated the seats with the names of plays, performances and Celtic designs before the concrete set. In 2014, the Minack Theatre was selected as one of the most spectacular theatres in the world.
Chris Thaxter | Porthcurno Cornwall

Porthcurno Cornwall

Porthcurno is a small village covering a small valley and beach on the south coast of Cornwall. Porthcurno is unusually well known for its size because of its history as a major international submarine communications cable station. In the late nineteenth century, the remote beach at Porthcurno became internationally famous as the British termination of early submarine telegraph cables, the first of which was landed in 1870.
Chris Thaxter | Lifeboat Victor Freeman at Sennen Cove

Lifeboat Victor Freeman at Sennen Cove

The Relief Tamar class lifeboat victor Freeman on the lifeboat station slip at Sennen Cove in 2015. Sennen Cove Lifeboat Station is a Royal National Lifeboat Institution base founded in 1853. It is run by volunteers and operates a Tamar-class all-weather lifeboat and an IB1 inshore lifeboat.
Chris Thaxter | Porthcurno Beach 2

Porthcurno Beach 2

Porthcurno is a small village covering a small valley and beach on the south coast of Cornwall. Porthcurno is unusually well known for its size because of its history as a major international submarine communications cable station. In the late nineteenth century, the remote beach at Porthcurno became internationally famous as the British termination of early submarine telegraph cables, the first of which was landed in 1870.
Chris Thaxter | Polzeath Sunset 2

Polzeath Sunset 2

Sunset at Polzeath in Cornwall. Polzeath is situated on the North coast of Cornwall, it hosts a fantastic beach and village and is also one of the worlds most renowned surfing destinations. Polzeath has a sandy beach and is popular with holiday-makers and surfers. The beach is 1,500 feet (460 m) wide and extends 1,200 feet (370 m) from the seafront at low water; however, most of the sand is submerged at high water.
Chris Thaxter | Sunset at Polzeath

Sunset at Polzeath

Sunset at Polzeath. Polzeath is situated on the North coast of Cornwall, it hosts a fantastic beach and village and is also one of the worlds most renowned surfing destinations. Polzeath has a sandy beach and is popular with holiday-makers and surfers. The beach is 1,500 feet (460 m) wide and extends 1,200 feet (370 m) from the seafront at low water; however, most of the sand is submerged at high water.
Chris Thaxter | The Lizard Cornwall

The Lizard Cornwall

The Lizard is a peninsula in southern Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The most southerly point of the British mainland is near Lizard Point. The Lizard's coast is particularly hazardous to shipping and the seaways around the peninsula were historically known as the Graveyard of Ships. The Lizard Lighthouse was built at Lizard Point in 1752 and the RNLI operates The Lizard lifeboat station.
Chris Thaxter | Padstow Lifeboat Station

Padstow Lifeboat Station

Padstow Lifeboat Station is based at Trevose Head west of Padstow. The current lifeboat is a Tamar class boat called Spirit of Padstow. The new lifeboat station was officially opened in September 2006.
Chris Thaxter | Padstow Lifeboat Station 2

Padstow Lifeboat Station 2

Padstow Lifeboat Station is based at Trevose Head west of Padstow. The current lifeboat is a Tamar class boat called Spirit of Padstow. The new lifeboat station was officially opened in September 2006.
Chris Thaxter | The Watering Hole Perranporth

The Watering Hole Perranporth

The Watering Hole is on Perranporth Beach. It is a Bar and Restaurant and boasts itself as the only bar on the beach in the UK.
Chris Thaxter | Widemouth Bay Bude Cornwall

Widemouth Bay Bude Cornwall

Widemouth Bay is a bay and beach on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall. It is about 3 miles south of Bude. The beach is popular for surfing and swimming and is patrolled in the summer by RNLI lifeguards. It has relatively gentle, easy to ride waves but on the other hand there can be big waves for surfers.
Chris Thaxter | Low Tide Sennen Cove

Low Tide Sennen Cove

Sennen Cove is a small coastal village in the parish of Sennen in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The South West Coast Path passes through Sennen Cove. The village of Sennen Cove overlooks the southern end of Whitesand Bay.
Chris Thaxter | Sennen Cove Boats

Sennen Cove Boats

Sennen Cove is a small coastal village in the parish of Sennen in Cornwall, England. The village of Sennen Cove overlooks the southern end of Whitesand Bay.
Chris Thaxter | Boats in Mevagissey Harbour.

Boats in Mevagissey Harbour.

Mevagissey is a village, fishing port and civil parish in Cornwall, England. The village nestles in a small valley and faces east to Mevagissey Bay. The inner and outer harbours are busy with a mixture of pleasure vessels and working fishing boats, the remains of a once major industry. However, tourism has supplanted fishing as the dominant industry in recent years. Image processed in Photoshop.
Chris Thaxter | Jamaica Inn Bodmin 2

Jamaica Inn Bodmin 2

Jamaica Inn is a traditional inn on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Built as a coaching inn in 1750, and having an association with smuggling. Jamaica Inn is on Bodmin Moor, near Bolventor. It was the setting for Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel Jamaica Inn, which was made into the film Jamaica Inn in 1939 by Alfred Hitchcock. Image processed in Photoshop.
Chris Thaxter | Jamaica Inn Bodmin Moor

Jamaica Inn Bodmin Moor

Jamaica Inn is a traditional inn on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Built as a coaching inn in 1750, and having an association with smuggling. Jamaica Inn is on Bodmin Moor, near Bolventor. It was the setting for Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel Jamaica Inn, which was made into the film Jamaica Inn in 1939 by Alfred Hitchcock. Image processed in Photoshop.
Chris Thaxter | Porthkurnik Beach Cornwall

Porthkurnik Beach Cornwall

Porthcurnick Beach is a sandy, south-facing beach nestling in a small cove near Portscatho, on the beautiful Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall. At low tide, when rock pools are revealed, the neighbouring beach of Portscatho can be reached.This is an isolated sandy beach backed by high cliffs close to Portscatho.
Chris Thaxter | Cot Valley Cornwall

Cot Valley Cornwall

Cot Valley is located half-a-mile south of St Just in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It has a very mild microclimate. The stream which runs down the valley discharges into the Atlantic Ocean at Nanven. This area of Cornwall was once mined for tin as evidenced today by the ruins along the stream