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Richard Short, a St Ives master mariner, wrote to the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette the day after the news of the sinking broke to note: "[H]ad there been a light on Godrevy Island, which the inhabitants of this town have often applied for, it would no doubt have been the means of warning the ill-fated ship of the dangerous rocks she was ...
St Ives Bay showing Godrevy Head and Godrevy Island (top right) Godrevy Lighthouse at sunset, April 2007 From the Knavocks to Godrevy Point Godrevy (Cornish: Godrevi, meaning small farms) (/ ɡ ə ˈ d r iː v i / gə-DREE-vee) [1] is an area on the eastern side of St Ives Bay, west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, which faces the Atlantic Ocean.
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St Ives RFC (Cornwall), a rugby union club based in St Ives, Cornwall; St Ives School, a group of artists in St Ives, Cornwall; St Ives School (academy), a secondary school in St Ives, Cornwall; St Ives PLC, a print company founded in St Ives, Cambridgeshire; SS St Ives, a ship originally named Empire Mammoth
St Ives Bay (Cornish: Roda Ia, meaning "Ia's anchorage") [1] is a bay on the Atlantic coast of north-west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in the form of a shallow crescent, some 4 miles or 6 km across, between St Ives in the west and Godrevy Head in the east.
St Ives has been a popular tourist destination since the St Ives Bay Line opened in 1877, allowing visitors to easily get to the town. [46] St Ives has been named the best UK seaside town by The Guardian in 2007, [7] and by the British Travel Awards in 2010 and 2011. [3] [47] In 2020, St Ives was named the most expensive seaside resort in the ...
Sketch map showing Carbis Bay within St Ives Bay Carbis Bay from St Ives. Carbis Bay (Cornish: Karrbons, meaning "causeway") is a seaside resort and village in Cornwall, England. It lies 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of St Ives, on the western coast of St Ives Bay, on the Atlantic coast. [2] The South West Coast Path passes above the beach.
The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in St Ives, Cornwall preserves the 20th-century sculptor Barbara Hepworth's studio and garden much as they were when she lived and worked there. She purchased the site in 1949 and lived and worked there for 26 years until her death in a fire on the premises in 1975.