Things to do near St Austell
Lost Gardens of Heligan (6.1Km)
80 acres of superb grounds with a complex of walled gardens and a huge, productive vegetable garden. Set in one of the most mysterious estates in England, Heligan.
Eden Project (5.0Km)
Cornwall's best known attraction. The site consists of 2 vast landscaped space age greenhouses, or biomes, containing a variety of temperate and tropical plants.
Charlestown Shipwreck Centre (3.2Km)
There are more than a quarter of a million shipwrecks around the coasts of Britain and the Charleston Shipwreck Centre illustrates a sample of these in photography and salvaged cargo
Tregrehan Garden (4.7Km)
Dramatic 20ha woodland garden created over the last 200 years by the Carlyon family, forming an exotic green gene bank of known source plants in a temperate rainforest
Ben's Play World (4.3Km)
Indoor adventure centre for children, featuring mega slides, giant tubes, ball pools and much more
Beaches near St Austell
Carlyon Bay (5.4Km)
The beach is a stretch of almost 2 miles of coarse sand, steeply shelving in places. Dogs not allowed.
However, at present, there is a lot of work g....
Charlestown (3.4Km)
Sandy beach with area of pebbles of geological interest. No dogs. There are a number of small caves in the cliffs but beware of rock falls. Nearby Cha....
Duporth (3.2Km)
Private sandy beach with all year dog ban. Safe for swimming. Interesting geology.....
Pentewan (5.7Km)
A large sandy beach, excellent for swimming and all water sports - swimming, surfing, windsurfing, sea canoeing, water skiing and sailing. Jet skis a....
Porthpean (2.9Km)
A safe, sandy, sheltered beach popular with families. The cliffs to the east are used by nesting birds, and there are lots of rock pools to the west.....