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Spectacular clifftop walk with dips into beachy coves and links to local buses. Very scenic but also windy, with several swimming spots along the way, but you need to bring your own picnic. There is a museum at Porthcurno, too.

Porthcurno to Penzance is a long enough walk that you might want to arrange overnight accomodation along the way, for example at Lamorna.

The Land's End commercial complex is out of place but can be easily ignored, though it is a pity the National Trust have not bought it.

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Spectacular clifftop walk with dips into beachy coves and links to local buses. Very scenic but also windy, with several swimming spots along the way, but you need to bring your own picnic. There is a museum at Porthcurno, too.

Porthcurno to Penzance is a long enough walk that you might want to arrange overnight accomodation along the way, for example at Lamorna.

The Land's End commercial complex is out of place but can be easily ignored, though it is a pity the National Trust have not bought it.

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Skip Land's End

Posted by finder 13 August 2007

This is the most disappointing tourist attraction in Cornwall. The cliffs and the sea are beautiful, but it's a pity the whole place has been ruined by a crass collection of shops, take-aways and a strange Land's End style amusement park. Really don't bother going here, it's not worth the drive just to see a geographical extreme.

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Porthcurno

Posted by KL0101 6 August 2007

A lovely little cove but take care with children as the beach shelves steeply and unexpectedly - although lifeguards do patrol during the summer months.

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