Menabilly, Fowey
#6 among attractions in Fowey
Facts and practical information
Menabilly is a historic estate on the south coast of Cornwall, England, situated within the parish of Tywardreath on the Gribben peninsula about 2 miles west of Fowey. ()
Fowey United Kingdom
Menabilly – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Eden Project, St Catherine's Castle, Tregaminion Church, St Sampson's Church.
- 3.9 miNWIconic eco park with educational centre
Eden Project, Par
101 min walk • Nestled in the heart of Cornwall, the Eden Project is a captivating botanical garden located in the quaint town of Bodelva, near Par, United Kingdom. This unique conservation project has transformed a reclaimed china clay pit into a sprawling eco-paradise, home...
- 1.1 miEForts and castles
St Catherine's Castle, Fowey
29 min walk • St Catherine's Castle is a Henrician castle in Cornwall, England, built by Thomas Treffry between approximately 1538 and 1540, in response to fears of an invasion of England by France and the Holy Roman Empire.
- 0.6 miNWChurch
Tregaminion Church, Par
15 min walk • Tregaminion Church is a Church of England church in Tregaminion, Cornwall, England, UK. The church dates to the early 19th century and is a Grade II* listed building.
- 2.8 miNEChurch
St Sampson's Church, Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
72 min walk • St Sampson's Church is the Church of England parish church of the village of Golant, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom; it is dedicated to St Sampson of Dol.
- 3.8 miWHistory museum, Museum, Maritime museum
Charlestown Shipwreck & Heritage Centre, Charlestown
98 min walk • The Shipwreck Treasure Museum located in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Charlestown, Cornwall, England, is a historical museum housing over 8,000 artifacts from over 150 different shipwrecks.
- 1.5 miEMuseum, Vernacular architecture
Place House, Fowey
38 min walk • Place House is a Grade I listed building located in Fowey, Cornwall, England. Home of the Treffry family since the thirteenth century, the original structure was a fifteenth-century tower, which was defended against the French in 1475 by Elizabeth Treffry.
- 2.2 miNEMusic and shows, Nightlife, Boat or ferry
Sawmills Studios, Fowey
56 min walk • Sawmills Studios, founded in 1974 by record producer Tony Cox, is a recording studio near Golant on the banks of the River Fowey in Cornwall. The studio building is located on its own tidal creek on the banks of the Fowey. Sawmills was one of the first residential recording facilities in the UK.
- 3.4 miNWPark
Tregrehan House, Par
87 min walk • Tregrehan is a country house near St. Blazey, Cornwall, designed by George Wightwick. It is described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "Late Georgian.. granite.. Ionic colonnade", "a pretty little lodge".
- 5.5 miW
- 2.3 miNForts and castles
Castle Dore, Par
60 min walk • Castle Dore is an Iron Age hill fort near Fowey in Cornwall, United Kingdom located at grid reference SX103548. It was probably occupied from the 5th or 4th centuries BC until the 1st century BC.
- 3.8 miNWForts and castles
Prideaux Castle, Par
98 min walk • Prideaux Castle is a multivallate Iron Age hillfort situated atop a 133 m high conical hill near the southern boundary of the parish of Luxulyan, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.