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Visit Falmouth’s Ak Wildlife Cruises Competition

To celebrate the exciting launch of our new booking system, Visit Falmouth has teamed up with the Falmouth based, Ak Wildlife Cruises, to bring you the chance to WIN two, ‘Wildlife Experience’, tickets. Join the welcoming and knowledgeable Wildlife...

Visit Falmouth’s New Commission Free Booking Facility

Visit Falmouth are pleased to announce the launch of our new commission free booking facility. Now when you come to our online hub of all things Falmouth you can explore all the great events, places to visit, history and...

Carclew House Cornwall

Crucglew, crucelew or Carclew as it is known today is the name of the estate found between Penryn and Mylor. In the past the name has been translated as, ‘The Enclosures by the Barrows’, Cruc or Crug meaning barrow...

Annual Fal Oyster Gathering & Seafood Harvest 2014

Join the Oyster men and the local community as they come together to celebrate the last weekend of, ‘Oyster Season’, in their very own seafood harvest festival. 28th – 30th March 2014 Sample native oysters and seafood prepared by a...

How Can I Get To Cornwall With No Trains Running?

If you are wondering – How Can I Get To Cornwall With No Trains Running? Then you will be pleased to learn – First Great Western ARE running a full schedule between Paddington and Penzance but with bus replacement between...

Falmouth to Royal Greenwich Tall Ships Regatta 2014

The Falmouth to Royal Greenwich Regatta 2014 – 28th – 31st August. Could there be a better time to imagine Falmouth as the hub of local and international news and information, when piracy and war were part of the tapestry of the...

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Walk – Kennall Vale Gunpowder Works

Are you looking for a great walk away from the coast and full of history? Would you like to find hobbits, fairies, ghosts, gunpowder mills and nature? Ok, so perhaps the hobbit’s, fairies and ghosts are largely dependent on...

Traditions of a Cornish Christmas

‘As our little periodical reaches the homes of our readers, the sounds of Christmas preparations will be predominant. It is not easy to make the festive season an old fashioned one. We go so fast now, what with our...

Mysterious Falmouth Monsters

When you talk of Cornwall’s history you will inevitably end up discussing pirate invasion, the mysterious lives of the, ‘little people’, mining accidents and their legacies and of course knockers, spriggins and piskies will crop up too. The county...

Falmouth Beer Festival and The Big Draw

Warm up your drinking arms and sharpen your pencils because Falmouth is gearing up to host one of the biggest and best beer festivals in the Southwest AND the largest drawing festival in the world! The Falmouth Beer Festival...