St Ives Bay
St Ives Bay 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include St Ives railway station and Tate St Ives.
St Ives railway station
Railway station
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St Ives railway station is a railway station which serves the coastal town of St Ives, Cornwall, England. It was opened in 1877 as the terminus of the last new broad gauge passenger railway to be constructed in the country. St Ives railway station is situated 1½ miles west of St Ives Bay.
Tate St Ives
Art gallery
Tate St Ives is an art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall, England, exhibiting work by modern British artists with links to the St Ives area. The Tate also took over management of another museum in the town, the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, in 1980. Tate St Ives is situated 2 miles west of St Ives Bay.
Barbara Hepworth Museum
Museum
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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. Barbara Hepworth Museum is situated 2 miles west of St Ives Bay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include The Towans and St Ives.
The Towans
Hamlet
Towan is found in many placenames in Cornwall. However, The Towans usually refers to the three-mile stretch of coastal dunes which extends north-east from the estuary of the River Hayle to Gwithian beach with a midpoint near Upton. The Towans is situated 1½ miles southeast of St Ives Bay.
St Ives
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St Ives is a seaside town on the north coast of West Cornwall, near Penzance. In 2011 its population was 11,226. This fishing village grew up into a seaside resort, and has long attracted artists.
Carbis Bay
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Carbis Bay is a seaside resort and village in Cornwall, England. It lies 1 mile southeast of St Ives, on the western coast of St Ives Bay, on the Atlantic coast. The South West Coast Path passes above the beach.
St Ives Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay on the north coast of Cornwall, England, UK
- Category: body of water
- Location: Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“St Ives Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Saint Ives Bay”
- Cebuano: “St Ives Bay”
- Cornish: “Baya Porthia”
- French: “baie de St Ives”
- French: “Baie de St Ives”
- German: “St Ives Bay”
- Italian: “Baia di St Ives”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “St Ives Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “St Ives Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “St. Ives-bukta”
- Norwegian: “St Ives Bay”
- Polish: “St Ives Bay”
- Swedish: “Saint Ives Bay”
- Swedish: “St Ives Bay”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Carbis Bay and St Ives Light.
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