Things to do with our clients around Falmouth
As part of our companionship-based approach, we believe keeping our clients engaged in their local community is really important.
At Home Instead Truro, Falmouth & Redruth, we are always delighted to take our clients out and about for a walk, a cream tea, a pasty, a bit of shopping or a visit to a friend.
The National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum is a fantastic local resource and a destination to find out all about Cornwall’s maritime history. Whether you are 8 or 80, a Cornish local or not, there are always some really interesting things going on in the beautifully-located museum in the heart of Falmouth at Discovery Quay. There are over 15 fascinating galleries housing exhibits, including a great selection of boats both in the Boat Hall inside and on the Museum’s own jetty outside in the harbour. The museum also holds regular talks and changing exhibitions, and each season has a different theme. It also has an excellent gift shop as well as a lovely café with views over Falmouth Marina and Harbour.
Gyllyngvase Beach
Gyllyngvase Beach is a a large and easily-accessed beach not far from Falmouth’s bustling town centre. As a Blue-Flag beach, it has excellent facilities, a gently-sloping beach of clean and golden sand, a very good beach café, public toilets, a kiosk selling food and drinks as well being right opposite a Co-op convenience store off Falmouth Road. Popular with old and young alike, it is great spot to take a stroll on the sand, have a dip in the water, have a spot of lunch or a cream tea, or simply sit and admire the beautiful views across Falmouth Bay and towards Pendennis Castle
Glendurgan Garden
The National Trusts’ wonderful sub-tropical Glendurgan Garden is well worth a visit. Situated on the Helford River, a few miles outside Falmouth it is a luscious and exotic wooded valley garden leading directly down to the Helford River. There is lots to see including a wonderful maze of cherry laurel which was planted back in 1833, a re-creation of the school room originally built in 1829 that used to educate the Fox family’s 12 children (the Fox family still live in the house at Glendurgan) as well as many local children and numerours trees and plants which cling to the sides of the valley. As always with the National Trust, there is a good gift shop and an excellent café serving hot and cold food, so you can whet your whistle after taking in the full glory of this magical place.
Pendennis Castle
One of Henry VIII’s finest seaside castles, Pendennis Castle is situated in a commanding position on a headland in Falmouth and was built to protect Falmouth Bay and the entrance to the Carrick Roads. It has played a key role in the naval defence of Falmouth on and off right up until the Second World War, and was finally turned into a museum in 1957. Built in 1539, this magnificent structure is now owned by English Heritage and is open to the public daily. Find all about its 450 years of fascinating history, visit the gift shop or go for a walk in the garden that surrounds it and admire the canons and the wonderful views over the magnificent coastline.
Mylor Harbour
Mylor Harbour is a little gem of a place, known mainly by the locals and the sailors who moor their boats at the marina or on a mooring just outside the harbour, as well as very many local dogwalkers. Orginally the UK’s most Westerly dockyard and a base of the “Packet” ships, it was also the base for the naval training ship the HMS Ganges. Like many other places along the Cornish Coast, Mylor Harbour played a key role during the Second World war as a base for the French Resistance. It is now home to the last fleet of the famous Cornish “Oyster” sailing boats, as well as being a fantastic yachting and watersports facility. It boasts a chandlery, a boat building and repair business, a boat sales business, holiday accomodation, the Castaways Restaurant and Cafe, and the very popular Cafe Mylor. It has a large car park, including several disabled parking spaces as well as a long and level pebbly beach where you can watch the boats coming and going, walk the dog and even spot a seal or two. It also has amazing views across to the Roseland Peninsula and St Anthony’s Head with its famous lighthouse.
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