CORNISH TOURS
Individual Tours of Cornwall
and HOME
Land's End, St Ives Penzance and St Michael's Mount
The Lizard, Helford and Falmouth
The Roseland, Bodmin Moor and Fowey
Tintagel, King Arthur's castle and the Wild North Coast
Looe and Polperro, The Tamar Valley, Plymouth Sound and Dartmoor
Cornish Garden Tours
Grand Cornish Houses
Easy Walking Tours
Painters, Writers, Culture Tours
Full Day Tours for Cruise ship passengers
Family History Tours
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Getting the Most from your Visit to Cornwall ... just a few helpful ideas!
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email: mike@cornwalltour.com
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Averil & Mike Inglefield
VERY SPECIAL TOURS of CORNWALL
from FIELDINGS
35 Treyew Road
Truro
Cornwall
TR1 2BY UK
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Tour Four
TINTAGEL, KING ARTHUR's CASTLE AND THE WILD NORTH COAST
The Legend of King Arthur continues to fascinate and attract people
from all over the world. At Tintagel, the evocative remains of a Norman
castle conjure spirits of Knights in Shining Armour, Ladies wearing floor
length dresses and pointed hats - with a colourful swatch hanging from the
top - (and perhaps imprisoned in loft garrets and in obvious distress).
And these ruins are built on the foundations of a much earlier
stronghold occupied by a Cornish King. It's position must have made it
virtually impregnable!
Small fishing villages inhabit sheltered inlets all along this rugged,
inhospitable coastline, with spectacular views everywhere including Port
Isaac (aka Port Wenn in the
Doc
Martin TV series).
But we start our tour at St Agnes Head, where we can see west as
far as St Ives and Cape Cornwall, and east as far as Trevose Head.
Old mine workings abound around the village of St Agnes and it is possible
to visit a very small tin streaming operation at
Wheal Kitty.
On to Padstow, fishing port
and holiday town on the River Camel estuary.
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Through Wadebridge, Port Isaac,
Boscastle, where there is a "Witches Museum"
and on to
Tintagel,
Legendary Home of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table - were
they all equal around that table or was King Arthur using early C6th spin?
In any event, the site of his castle is certainly impregnable on three
sides - and the fourth side would have looked a bit intimidating to a
would-be attacker. Take the Landrover vehicle down to the castle to save
your legs - and again on the return.
And HOME via Bodmin Moor - perhaps visiting Dozmary pool, where
King Arthur's famous sword 'Excalibur' last saw the light of day before
sinking below the water - Pencarrow
House - a small stately home -
Roche
Rock - Castle-an-Dinas and
Trewithen Gardens.
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