Places to see in ( St Just - UK )
Places to see in ( St Just - UK )
St Just is a town and civil parish in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies along the B3306 road which connects St Ives to the A30 road. The parish encompasses the town of St Just and the nearby settlements of Trewellard, Pendeen and Kelynack: it is bounded by the parishes of Morvah to the north-east, Sancreed and Madron to the east, St Buryan and Sennen to the south and by the sea in the west.
The town of St Just is the most westerly town in mainland Britain and is situated approximately 8 miles (13 km) west of Penzance along the A3071. St Just parish, which includes Pendeen and the surrounding area. St Just lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park. St Just is one of only two towns included within the Cornwall AONB.
The identity of Saint Just is not known. Cornwall's long resistance to the edicts of Canterbury and Rome makes it most unlikely that the saint was Archbishop Justus of Canterbury, as some sources claim.[citation needed] Another possibility is the 6th- or 7th-century Saint Iestyn, said to be the son of a ruler of Dumnonia.
Among the prehistoric antiquities nearby is Ballowall Barrow, a chambered tomb. St Just is one of the most ancient mining districts in Cornwall, and remains of ancient pre-industrial and more modern mining activity have had a considerable impact on the nearby landscape.
The parish church of St Just is a fine 15th-century building. In 1336 the church was rebuilt and dedicated by John Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter; however only the chancel of this church survives and the nave and aisles are 15th-century in date. There are two Methodist chapels. St Just is the home of Cape Cornwall School which also serves Sennen, Sancreed, Pendeen, St Buryan and other places in the district.
St Just is home to the popular Lafrowda festival a seven-day community and arts celebration usually held in Mid July. A more ancient celebration associated with the town is St Just Feast which is held every year to celebrate the dedication of the parish church in 13 July 1336. Feast celebrations were moved to the Sunday nearest to All Saints' Day in 1536 following an Act of Henry VIII which means it usually take place at the end of October / beginning of November. Feast itself is a two-day event with a church service and civic procession being held on Feast Sunday and a larger scale popular celebration being held on Feast Monday (which includes a meeting of the Western Hunt). A description of St Just Feast
St Just also has a 'Plen an Gwarry' (Cornish for playing place), locally pronounced 'Plain an Gwarry'. These sites were used historically for open-air performance, entertainment and instruction. St Just's Plen an Gwarry occasionally hosts productions of the Cornish Ordinalia mystery plays. St Just has a healthy artistic scene, including the painter Kurt Jackson who has made several television appearances. Contemporary singer and comedian Jethro from nearby St Buryan played for St Just Rugby Club and has recorded a song entitled St Just.
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St Just, Cornwall, UK
These are some photos of the church and cemetery in St Just Cornwall November 2010 during our last trip to the UK
St Clether chapel and Holy well
This video is of St Clether chapel and holy well. You can only get there by walking from St Clether church. The chapel is by itself in a very nice green part of Bodmin moor. There is a chapel (a new roof was put on in 2010) which is ancient with an ancient well next to it. They are both always open. The church of St Clether is open between 10:00-5:00 every day and while you are there you should have a look at that. To here the piano being played in St Clether church go on to the web link below:
Carn Euny Iron Age Settlement near Penzance, Cornwall
For - Carn Euny is an Iron Age Settlement of courtyard houses with a fogou and a number of round houses at Sancreed near Penzance, Cornwall
Cohort Hostel, St. Ives Bay. The best hostel in Cornwall! Go Pro Time Lapse
Hostelworld, TripAdvisor and myself all agree that Cohort Hostel is the most excellent place to stay in St. Ives. It's trendy, clean, pretty cheap and smack in the middle of town. If you're looking for a place to stay while you surf and hike around South West Cornwall, I recommend it! The staff are great too.
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Royalty Free music Ukulele by Bensounds
Stories in Stone - Episode 1
Introduced by Emlyn Glanmor Harris, the 'Stories in Stone' documentary series, explores the ancient places, architecture, monuments and memorial of Cornwall, providing an insight into the Duchy of Cornwall, its history and people.
Carn Euny
This video is of the ancient village of Carn Euny, now in the hamlet of Brane, near Sancreed, near Penzance, Cornwall, UK. This high up ancient settlement has great views across Penwith and most of the present buildings are from around 4 AD but there has been a village here, which there may still be some remnants of, from long before the Roman invasion and possibly about six thousands years ago. There is the ruins of a 18th century house at the side next to the entrance to the fogou (which you see at the beginning or the video) which is an underground chamber. There is a holy well across the hedge and a burial chamber at nearby Brane farm. This is one of the best preserved ancient villages in Cornwall. This is one of my videos from the Lands end peninsular that I took on Wednesday 28th December 2016. The other videos I took from here are (or will be) on my YouTube channel and the other places I videoed on Wednesday are Chapel Euny holy well, Drift stones, Trelew Menhir, Merry Maidens stone circle, Boskenna cross, Boscawen-Ros East standing stone, Blind fiddler standing stone, Tregriffian burial chamber, Gun Rith standing stone and Chyoone cross.
Lanyon Quoit - Cornwall
Lanyon Quoit is a dolmen in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, 2 miles southeast of Morvah.
Lanyon Quoit currently has three support stones which stand to a height of 1.5 metres. These bear a capstone which is 5.5 metres long, and which weighs more than 12 tonnes. (Wikipedia)
Music: Cheesy Spats
Album: Top of the Glen
The Merry Maidens Stone Circle - in Cornwall
19 merry maidens were petrified in Cornwall for dancing on a Sunday, ages ago.
We visited them in December 2012 AD.
As a precaution, we refrained from dancing there ourselves.
My journey along the Cornish Tin Mining World Heritage Site Made by Huggie Huggie2love.
Highlights of my Coastal Path Video My journey along the Cornish Tin Mining World Heritage Site. Via Cape Cornwall to Sennon Cove My coast path walk starts at Beautiful Unspoilt Picturesque My Pendeer Lighthouse, Hope you like and enjoy this new coastal path video my Coastal Path walk along From Pendeen Lighthouse, Pendeen Cliff, The Kenidjacks, Portheran cove, Carn Clough, The Enys, The Avarack, Trewellard Bottoms, Levant Mine, Carn Du, and Beam Engine, Chyo, Levant Zawn, Waterrtall Shafts, Roscommon Cliffs, Carn Venan, via Botallack Head, The Crown, Zawn a Bal, Wheal Edward Zawn, Carnyouth, Botallack village pub, , Cape Cornwall, Preist’s cove, St Just village and church, the walk takes me on to Cove Porth Nanven, Carn Leskys, Gribba Point, Polpry cove, Maen Dower, Gazik, Nanquideo, Nanjullian, Gurland, Aire Point, Whitesand Bay, Trevedra Common, at Carvan site, Carn Barges, to finish of walk at Sennen Cove
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Hight up on the exposed cliffs of the “Tin Coast” and part of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site. At its heart, the restored 1840s beam engine running on steam. A seven mile stretch of coast with a rich mining history. Levant Mine and Beam Engine is a National Trust property at Trewellard, Pendeen, near St Just, Cornwall, England, UK. Its main attraction is that it has the world's only Cornish beam engine still operated by steam on its original site
In its dramatic clifftop setting in St Just in West Cornwall, Levant Mine and Beam Engine's surviving buildings and ruins as a Cornish Mining World Heritage Site offer a window on another world where men and women toiled to extract the riches of the earth from beneath crashing waves. The mine is looked after by the National Trust
Levant Mine stands in a superb location on the edge of a cliff near St Just, Cornwall. A restored steam engine supplies the power for the historic beam engine which stands at the core of the mine buildings. The famous Levant beam engine is the only example still in steam at a copper or tin mine. It is housed in a small winding engine house on the very edge of the cliffs.
the Botallack mines are the Crowns engine houses, now protected as part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site. The Crowns were built around 1815 to pump water and allow submarine mining, or mining under the sea bed. 7 by 4 feet tunnels were cut over a mile out under the sea where there was a rich copper lode, the shafts were sunk to a depth of 350 fathoms. In Botallack's heyday around 500 men, women and children were employed by the mine. Between its opening and decommissioning in 1904 some 20 thousand tons of copper were produced.
Cornish mining history. There were over 100 engine houses in the St Just district during the 19th century and earlier. But in 1895 the entire mine at Botallack closed due to rapidly falling copper and tin prices.
Poldark's filming locations Series one, two and three of the BBC’s adaptation of Winston Graham's much-loved Poldark novels feature many of the places in Cornwall
The distinctive headland Cape Cornwall just out into the ocean where two great bodies of water meet. Part of the Tin Coast and Cornish Mining World Heritage Site. Cape Cornwall beach to the south at the base of Cape Cornwall is known as Priest's Cove and is popular with swimmers. The beach is recorded as having been in use since medieval times. At low tide the rock pools form a rock swimming pool. The rock pools are also good for exploring for sea life. The chimney stack on the top of the hill was built to service the tin and copper mine that worked here in the mid 19th century. There is a still a small boat fishing fleet that operates off Priest Cove, a sheltered beach just to the south of the headland. There is a National Coastwatch position on the cape and it is a well known wildlife watching spot for dolphins and seabirds. Cape Cornwall is a gorgeous, wild, windswept place, well-known for passing migratory birds like shearwaters, gannets and kittiwakes, especially during the late autumn gales. The South West coast path skirts behind the headland
A large 15th century church standing just off the town square of St Just, built in Perpendicular Gothic style. St. Just is a former market town
A large 15th century church standing just off the town square of St Just, built in Perpendicular Gothic style. St. Just is a former market town
Beautiful Unspoilt Picturesque fishing village of Sennen Cove and and the Beautiful Unspoilt Whitesand Bay This is one of Cornwall’s most popular beaches The fabulous sands extend northwards from the village of Sennen Cove Sennen Cove is the nearest village to Land's End.
Hope you like and enjoy this new coastal Path video, much love from Huggie xoxo
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