Pendrathen

Bay in Cornwall

England

Pendrathen

Isles of Scilly, The Mare The Mare is the southernmost of the rocky islets just south of Tresco.
Isles of Scilly, The Mare Credit: David Dixon

Pendrathen Bay is a picturesque coastal area located in Cornwall, England. Situated on the southern coast of the county, it boasts stunning natural beauty and a rich historical background. The bay is surrounded by rugged cliffs, golden sandy beaches, and crystal-clear turquoise waters, making it a popular destination for both locals and tourists.

The bay is home to a small village called Pendrathen, which retains its traditional charm with its quaint cottages and narrow winding streets. The village has a population of around 1,000 residents, and it offers a peaceful and tranquil atmosphere. The locals are known for their friendly and welcoming nature, creating a warm and inviting community.

Pendrathen has a strong maritime heritage, with fishing being a significant part of its history. The village's harbor still serves as a base for local fishermen, who bring in fresh seafood daily. Visitors can enjoy freshly caught fish and chips while taking in the stunning views of the bay.

For nature enthusiasts, Pendrathen Bay provides ample opportunities for outdoor activities. The surrounding cliffs offer some of the best coastal walks in Cornwall, allowing visitors to explore the dramatic coastline and spot diverse wildlife, including seabirds and seals. The bay is also a popular spot for water sports such as surfing, kayaking, and sailing.

Overall, Pendrathen Bay is a hidden gem in Cornwall, offering a perfect blend of natural beauty, rich history, and a warm community atmosphere. Whether you're seeking tranquility, outdoor adventures, or a taste of authentic Cornish life, Pendrathen Bay has something to offer for everyone.

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Pendrathen Images

Images are sourced within 2km of 49.935791/-6.3027738 or Grid Reference SV9112. Thanks to Geograph Open Source API. All images are credited.

Isles of Scilly, The Mare The Mare is the southernmost of the rocky islets just south of Tresco.
Isles of Scilly, The Mare
The Mare is the southernmost of the rocky islets just south of Tresco.
Bar Point at a low spring tide Looking across Crow Sound to the western end of St Martin’s, Tean, and St Helen’s.
Bar Point at a low spring tide
Looking across Crow Sound to the western end of St Martin’s, Tean, and St Helen’s.
Looking east from Bar Point At a low spring tide.
Looking east from Bar Point
At a low spring tide.
McFarland’s Down A lane of nondescript bungalows.
McFarland’s Down
A lane of nondescript bungalows.
Two gates On Mcfarlands Down.
Two gates
On Mcfarlands Down.
Entrance to the Innisidgen chambered cairn Scheduled Monument including both burial cairn and other features:

Two entrance graves, a prehistoric field system, and Civil War fieldworks and blockhouse on Innisidgen Hill and Helvear Down, St Mary's

List Entry Number:1013271 <span class="nowrap"><a title="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1013271?section=official-list-entry" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1013271?section=official-list-entry">Link</a><img style="margin-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="https://s1.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/></span>
Entrance to the Innisidgen chambered cairn
Scheduled Monument including both burial cairn and other features: Two entrance graves, a prehistoric field system, and Civil War fieldworks and blockhouse on Innisidgen Hill and Helvear Down, St Mary's List Entry Number:1013271 LinkExternal link
Rope swing near Innisidgen Hanging from a very high branch of a Monterey Pine.
Rope swing near Innisidgen
Hanging from a very high branch of a Monterey Pine.
Gate with faded sign Possibly an old PRIVATE sign? According to the OS  the track ahead is a right of way..
Gate with faded sign
Possibly an old PRIVATE sign? According to the OS the track ahead is a right of way..
Rocks near Pellew's Redoubt A reprograph of my own first for the square <a title="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/815561" href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/815561">Link</a> if only because there’s nothing much else in it! Should get me a T point too!
Rocks near Pellew's Redoubt
A reprograph of my own first for the square Link if only because there’s nothing much else in it! Should get me a T point too!
Tobaccoman’s Point and Green Island With Tresco Abbey behind.

Taken on the way back from St Martin’s.
Tobaccoman’s Point and Green Island
With Tresco Abbey behind. Taken on the way back from St Martin’s.
Crow Sound, Toll's Island A small fishing boat navigates Crow Sound on the eastern side of St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly.  Toll's Island is one of the tidal islands off the Isles of Scilly.  It is located 100 metres east of the coast of St Mary's at Pelistry.  Toll’s Island is linked to St Mary's by a sandy isthmus which is covered at high tide.
Crow Sound, Toll's Island
A small fishing boat navigates Crow Sound on the eastern side of St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly. Toll's Island is one of the tidal islands off the Isles of Scilly. It is located 100 metres east of the coast of St Mary's at Pelistry. Toll’s Island is linked to St Mary's by a sandy isthmus which is covered at high tide.
Hats South Cardinal Marker, Crow Sound A cardinal mark is a sea mark (a buoy or other floating or fixed structure) used in maritime pilotage to indicate the position of a hazard and the direction of safe water. The direction of its two conical top marks indicates the safest side to pass. In this case, both cones are pointing down which indicates that shipping should pass on the south side of the buoy (to avoid the Hats shallows and an uncovering boiler structure from a wreck in the sound. <span class="nowrap"><a title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_mark" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_mark">Link</a><img style="margin-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="https://s1.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/></span>  (Cardinal Mark, Wikipedia).
Hats South Cardinal Marker, Crow Sound
A cardinal mark is a sea mark (a buoy or other floating or fixed structure) used in maritime pilotage to indicate the position of a hazard and the direction of safe water. The direction of its two conical top marks indicates the safest side to pass. In this case, both cones are pointing down which indicates that shipping should pass on the south side of the buoy (to avoid the Hats shallows and an uncovering boiler structure from a wreck in the sound. LinkExternal link (Cardinal Mark, Wikipedia).
Halangy Down Transmitter Mast The Halangy Down transmitter on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly is a 500-watt FM radio and television transmitter with a 250-foot-high steel lattice tower, surmounted by a main TV antenna. It was built by the BBC in 1969.
Halangy Down Transmitter Mast
The Halangy Down transmitter on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly is a 500-watt FM radio and television transmitter with a 250-foot-high steel lattice tower, surmounted by a main TV antenna. It was built by the BBC in 1969.
Crow Rock and Beacon Crow Rock is an islet in the Isles of Scilly, situated near to Halangy Point on St Mary's. At high tide. only the central tip of the rock is visible above the water, hence the need for the beacon.
Crow Rock and Beacon
Crow Rock is an islet in the Isles of Scilly, situated near to Halangy Point on St Mary's. At high tide. only the central tip of the rock is visible above the water, hence the need for the beacon.
Isles of Scilly, Crow Rock and Halangy Down Transmitter Mast Crow Rock is an islet in the Isles of Scilly, situated near Halangy Point on St Mary's. At high tide. only the central tip of the rock is visible above the water, hence the need for the beacon. The Halangy Down transmitter on St Mary's is a 500-watt FM radio and television transmitter with a 250 feet high steel lattice tower, surmounted by a main TV antenna. It was built by the BBC in 1969.
Isles of Scilly, Crow Rock and Halangy Down Transmitter Mast
Crow Rock is an islet in the Isles of Scilly, situated near Halangy Point on St Mary's. At high tide. only the central tip of the rock is visible above the water, hence the need for the beacon. The Halangy Down transmitter on St Mary's is a 500-watt FM radio and television transmitter with a 250 feet high steel lattice tower, surmounted by a main TV antenna. It was built by the BBC in 1969.
Green Island, Tresco
Green Island, Tresco
Tresco, Skirt Island
Tresco, Skirt Island
Watermill Cove, St Mary's (Isles of Scilly) St Mary's (Cornish: Ennor) is the largest and most populous island of the Isles of Scilly archipelago
Watermill Cove, St Mary's (Isles of Scilly)
St Mary's (Cornish: Ennor) is the largest and most populous island of the Isles of Scilly archipelago
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Pendrathen is located at Grid Ref: SV9112 (Lat: 49.935791, Lng: -6.3027738)

Division: Isles of Scilly

Unitary Authority: Isles of Scilly

Police Authority: Devon and Cornwall

What 3 Words

///gravel.trade.valued. Near St Mary's, Isles of Scilly

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Nearby Amenities

Located within 500m of 49.935791,-6.3027738
Source: PGS
Lat/Long: 49.9367319/-6.2964882
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Lat/Long: 49.9368341/-6.2967972
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Lat/Long: 49.9367816/-6.2987131
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Lat/Long: 49.9366418/-6.2976507
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Lat/Long: 49.9366497/-6.2962994
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Lat/Long: 49.9348763/-6.3015099
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Lat/Long: 49.9345018/-6.3043288
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Lat/Long: 49.9352972/-6.3004697
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Lat/Long: 49.9361937/-6.2994583
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Lat/Long: 49.9358128/-6.2996875
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Lat/Long: 49.9366024/-6.2994247
Halangy Down BBC Transmitter
Height: 120
Man Made: tower
Source Height: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hangley_Down_BBC_Transmitter_-_geograph.org.uk_-_570988.jpg
Source Name: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hangley_Down_BBC_Transmitter_-_geograph.org.uk_-_570988.jpg + verbal correction
Tower Type: communication
Wikidata: Q42852371
Wikipedia: en:Halangy Down transmitter
Lat/Long: 49.9324837/-6.3053897
Barrier: kissing_gate
Lat/Long: 49.9330848/-6.3053074
Source: PGS
Lat/Long: 49.936813/-6.2991856
The Long Rock
Archaeological Site: megalith
Heritage: yes
Historic: archaeological_site
Material: stone
Megalith Type: menhir
Source: 1:25k + verbal
Source Alt Name: 1:25k
Source Name: verbal
Tourism: attraction
Wikidata: Q17674083
Lat/Long: 49.9319284/-6.3023347
Crow Rock
Place: islet
Seamark Beacon Isolated Danger Colour: black;red;black
Seamark Beacon Isolated Danger Colour Pattern: horizontal
Seamark Light Character: Fl
Seamark Light Colour: white
Seamark Light Group: 2
Seamark Light Period: 10
Seamark Name: Crow Rock
Seamark Topmark Colour: black
Seamark Topmark Shape: 2 spheres
Seamark Type: beacon_isolated_danger
Lat/Long: 49.9377714/-6.3083262
Leisure: slipway
Lat/Long: 49.9348218/-6.3044948
Pendrathen
Place: isolated_dwelling
Lat/Long: 49.9334654/-6.3059918
Bench
Lat/Long: 49.9344045/-6.304699
Generator Method: photovoltaic
Generator Output Electricity: yes
Generator Source: solar
Generator Type: solar_photovoltaic_panel
Location: roof
Power: generator
Lat/Long: 49.9314792/-6.303438
Location Transition: yes
Power: pole
Lat/Long: 49.9329562/-6.301543
Power: pole
Lat/Long: 49.9334267/-6.3010669
Power: pole
Transformer: distribution
Lat/Long: 49.9337133/-6.3004419
Power: pole
Lat/Long: 49.9336244/-6.2986931
Power: pole
Lat/Long: 49.9333369/-6.2979957
Location Transition: yes
Power: pole
Lat/Long: 49.9338842/-6.2993395
Location Transition: yes
Power: pole
Lat/Long: 49.9335527/-6.2990002
Power: pole
Lat/Long: 49.9327369/-6.2990686
Power: pole
Lat/Long: 49.9321387/-6.299137
Pendrathen
Natural: bay
Source: OS Open Names
Lat/Long: 49.9357845/-6.302839
Seamark Beacon Special Purpose Colour: black
Seamark Beacon Special Purpose Shape: pile
Seamark Type: beacon_special_purpose
Lat/Long: 49.93622/-6.3036418
Seamark Landmark Category: mast
Seamark Landmark Function: television
Seamark Light Colour: red
Seamark Type: landmark
Lat/Long: 49.9324702/-6.3054335
Seamark Type: wreck
Seamark Wreck Category: dangerous
Seamark Wreck Water Level: submerged
Lat/Long: 49.9381017/-6.3037276
Bench
Material: wood
Seats: 1
Lat/Long: 49.9352015/-6.3005485
Bench
Backrest: yes
Material: wood
Seats: 1
Lat/Long: 49.9360331/-6.2960498
The data included in this document is from www.openstreetmap.org. The data is made available under ODbL.

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