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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 ...
The present building dates from the 17th or 18th century, [1] but the public house is dated to "circa 1312". [2] The inn is one of the oldest surviving in Cornwall, possibly in the United Kingdom, [3] and was popular with artists during the Victorian era, with one commentator stating that the artists and fisherman got on well together.
After the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537, the chapel was given to the prior to live in. The lords of the manor of St Ives changed hands several times, as did the chapel. During this period, it was in turn - a private house, a doctors surgery and a pub, called Little Hell.
St Ives railway station, in the town; St Ives (UK Parliament constituency), the parliamentary constituency that covers the far west of Cornwall; St Ives, Cambridgeshire, formerly in Huntingdonshire St Ives (Cambridgeshire) railway station, a former railway station in the town; St Ives, Dorset; Bingley St Ives or St. Ives Estate, West Yorkshire
St Ives is an historic fishing port in west Cornwall and offers a sheltered harbour for ships in the open waters of the Western Approaches.On 24 December 1838 the schooner Rival was trying to enter the harbour in a gale but came to grief on one of its piers; despite lacking proper rescue boats and equipment five people were saved after much courage and effort by the people ashore.
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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.
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.