St Anthony's Head

South Cornwall


The remains of a turn-of-the-century gun battery can still be seen along the point at St Anthony's Head. Just along the coast is the peninsula's 1835-built lighthouse, where you can now stay inside the lighthouse keeper's old cottage, Sally Port.


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