Best Things to See & Do in St-Just

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  • Mulfra Quoit Sun

    The Neolithic Mulfra Quoit sits high on the West Cornwall moors with wide reaching views over the landscape and sea. It is similar in structure to nearby Chûn Quoit but less well preserved. 

    The quoit is a typical...

  • Boswens Standing Stone

    Boswens Menhir is a standing stone near St Just in West Penwith, possibly associated with the nearby Tregeseal stone circle. Visible from Tregeseal stone circle, and not far from Chun Quoit, Boswens Menhir stands in the middle...
  • Madron Well
    Down a muddy path lined with blackthorn and hawthorn just north of the village of Madron, lies Madron Well which has long been revered for its magical and healing powers as well as its supply of water to the local community. Even...
  • Tregiffian Barrow

    A stone's throw from the Merry Maidens, this Neolithic or early Bronze Age barrow or entrance grave has numerous interesting features. It is also only one of three such sites in Cornwall, the others being found at Pennance and...
  • Watch Croft Iron Age hut

    Watch Croft is the highest point on the Penwith moors, rising 252 metres (827 ft) above the north coast. It is therefore not surprising that the hill has had some significance since the Bronze Age. The top of Watch Croft is...

  • Porthcurno Telegraph Museum

    Porthcurno Telegraph Museum records the history of the telegraph station and the defensive tunnels built to house it during the Second World War

  • The Pipers of Boleigh

    The Pipers menhirs are set in fields just across the road from the well known Merry Maidens of Boleigh stone circle. In the far west of Cornwall one comes to expect a lot of ancient sites; however, this particular area has an unparalleled...

  • Newlyn Art Gallery

    Public art gallery featuring contemporary art. Located on the edge of Newlyn Green, overlooking the sea, the gallery take full advantage of its position with the recent addition of a glass pavilion.

  • The Blind Fiddler

    Standing over 10' high and visible over the hedge from the A30 to Land’s End, this Menhir earned its name, along with numerous other ancient stone sites, from what was probably a moral parable aimed at warding people off...

  • Bosiliack Barrow

    Bosiliack Barrow is an example of a Scillonian entrance tomb found scattered over the West Penwith peninsula and the Scillies, but is unique insofar as its rediscovery and listing as such is very recent (C20th) and so it has suffered little...

  • Bosigran Sunset

    Bosigran Castle is a very simple Iron Age cliff castle positioned on a rocky headland overlooking very steep granite cliffs. The castle mainly consists of a wall, around a hundred meters long, that was built across the...

  • Carn Kenidjack

    The Tinners Way is an ancient 18 mile (29Km) trail from St Ives to Cape Cornwall in St Just. The walk takes in everything that is quintessentially West Penwith, starting on the rugged north coast and heading inland across high moor which has...

  • Porthmeor Stone Circle - Treen Common

    Located on the West Penwith moors, as they drop back down towards the north coast is this apparent stone circle. It seems much of the time the stones are obscured by the gorse and heather, however, after a recent fire they...

  • Carfury Standing Stone

    The tall, slender menhir at Carfury stands at about 10 feet (3m) tall. The stone was known as Cuckoo Rock at one time and it is possible that it was one of a pair as their is a larger fallen stone nearby

    In 1958 the site was...

  • The Drift Stones (The Sisters)

    Also known as the Triganeeris Sisters, or simply 'the Sisters', the Drift Stones are an impressive pair of standing stones situated in a field just off the A30, a few miles west of Penzance near the village of Drift. The largest...

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