Visit St Merryn Places

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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in St Merryn

  

St Merryn Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about St Merryn

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St Merryn history

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St Merryn air field

RNAS St Merryn operated from 1937 to 1956 was also known as HMS Vulture and HMS Curlew. Initially the airfield was built with an airstrip and one hangar for civil purposes.

St Merryn beef shipment of 1999

Beef from a St Merryn slaughterhouse made the national news when it was the source of the first beef from the British mainland to be served in Brussels in three years. It signalled a re-emergence of British beef in the international marketplace since bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) resulted in a shut down of beef exports.

St Merryn culture & places

St Merryn is one of the last villages to have a traditional cornish hurling match as part of their annual village festival. Kayling, similar to skittles, was played in the locality from at least the 16th century until the 20th century.

St Merryn economy & business

Tourism

Most of the Seven bays have lifeguard facilities, car parks, and public toilets during the summer months. Lodging choices include houses to let, hotels, caravan parks, holiday home parks, campsites.

St Merryn toponymy

There are two theories about the namesake of the parish of St Merryn. Visit Cornwall asserts that according to local historians the village and parish are named after a Welsh missionary priest. It has also been proposed that a monk named Maruanus or Maruan.

St Merryn geography / climate

The 3,798 acre parish of St Merryn is bounded by a millstream to the south that separates it from the St Ervan and St Eval parishes; more than 5.5 miles (8.9 km) of coastline along the Atlantic Ocean. The Seven Bays includes (from west to east) Porthcothan Bay, Treyarnon Bay, Constantine Bay, Booby’s Bay, Mother Ivey’s’ Bay, Harlyn Bay and Trevone Bay. Interesting features include the seaside cliffs, Tregudda gorge, Trevose Head and collapsed cave known as Round Hole.

You can visit St Merryn places with Walkfo St Merryn to hear history at St Merryn’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo St Merryn has 22 places to visit in our interactive St Merryn map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout St Merryn, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at St Merryn places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to St Merryn & the surrounding areas.

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Walkfo: Visit St Merryn Places Map
22 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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St Merryn historic spots	St Merryn tourist destinations	St Merryn plaques	St Merryn geographic features
Walkfo St Merryn tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in St Merryn

  

Best St Merryn places to visit

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St Merryn has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied St Merryn’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo St Merryn’s information audio spots:

Penrose Methodist Chapel Penrose Methodist Chapel is a redundant chapel 1.5 miles (2 km) west of the hamlet of St Ervan in Cornwall. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

Trevose Golf & Country Club Trevose Golf & Country Club is a 27-hole golf club in Cornwall, England. It has hosted many of the leading amateur golf tournaments in Britain, including the Brabazon Trophy and European Senior Tour events.

Trevose Head Trevose Head (Cornish: Penn Trenfos, meaning farm of the wall’s headland) is a headland on the Atlantic coast of north Cornwall. It is situated approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Padstow. The South West Coast Path runs around the whole promontory.

Prideaux Place Prideaux Place is a grade I listed Elizabethan country house in Padstow, Cornwall. The house was built in 1592 by Sir Nicholas Prideaux, a distinguished lawyer, and was enlarged and modified by successive generations. The present building, containing 81 rooms, combines the traditional E-shape of Elizabethan architecture with the 18th-century exuberance of Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill Gothic.

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