Bodmin Moor and the Cheese Wring 

Falmouth and Penryn 

St Michael's Mount

Falmouth

Close to the Lizard Peninsula, Falmouth has long been an important English harbour, the third deepest in the world and a link to Europe and the rest of the world.

The town rose to prominence over nearby Penryn in the 16th century, when Henry VIII ordered built two castles, one at Pendennis and the other across the river mouth and Carrick Roads at St Mawes to protect the town from the Spanish. The town was home to the Killigrews who founded Falmouth's fortunes at that time.

Today, the town attracts thousands of visitors but also maintains a substantial docks and is the site of one of the country's main art colleges. Pendennis Castle was in use during the war, when the D-Day landings were planned nearby.

Penryn

The older town, Penryn is built on and out of granite. Once the site of Glasney college, the major seat of learning in Cornwall until the monasteries were dissolved by Henry VIII, it has recently become the site of a modern college at Tremough.

St Gluvias is the parish church, located at the top of the estuary of the river Fal, and a vicar of the church was William Temple, who befriended Gray and wrote an appreciation of his character that was included in Johnson's Lives of the Poets.