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Single-floor, indoor-outdoor luxe.
A 2024 barn conversion, single-floor throughout, with French doors onto a private patio.
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Where you'll be
Trewena sits in the parish of Mabe, four miles from Falmouth harbour, three minutes from Penryn Campus, half an hour from the Lizard. Quiet enough to hear birds in the morning. Close enough to be on the South West Coast Path before lunch.
The position
Trewena is on the edge of the village of Mabe Burnthouse, between Falmouth and Penryn. A quick hop to the village shop and pub. Asda and the Verdant Brewery taproom are less than a mile down the road.
The A39 and A394 are a couple of minutes away, so day trips in any direction are genuinely day trips. South to the Lizard. West to Penzance, St Ives and Land's End. North-east to Truro, Padstow, Tintagel, Eden. The harbour and beaches at Falmouth are ten minutes the other way.
The map
The places our guests visit most.
Within easy reach
Most of west and mid Cornwall is reachable within an hour. The big stuff in thirty.
Mabe Burnthouse
Walking distance. The village pub and shop.
Penryn Tremough Campus
Three minutes by car.
Penryn town
Five minutes. Restaurants, supermarket, the historic high street.
Asda and the Verdant Brewery taproom
Less than a mile down the road.
Flicka Foundation Donkey Sanctuary
Next door, in the parish.
Falmouth town and harbour
Ten minutes. Beaches, Maritime Museum, Pendennis Castle.
Constantine
Ten minutes. Heading down towards the Helford.
Stithians
Twelve minutes. The reservoir is just beyond.
Mawnan Smith and Trebah Garden
Fifteen minutes.
Mylor and Flushing
Fifteen minutes. The Pandora Inn on the water.
Glendurgan Garden
Fifteen to twenty minutes.
Helford and Helford Passage
Twenty minutes.
Helston
Twenty-five minutes. Gateway to the Lizard.
Truro
Twenty-five minutes. The county town and cathedral.
Trelissick Garden
Twenty-five minutes.
Lizard Point
Half an hour to the southernmost tip of mainland Britain.
Kynance Cove
Forty minutes. One of the most photographed beaches in the country.
St Michael's Mount
Thirty-five minutes.
St Ives
Forty-five minutes.
Lost Gardens of Heligan
Forty-five minutes.
Eden Project
An hour.
Padstow
An hour.
Land's End
An hour and a quarter.
Walking from the door
Walks start at the cottage door. The parish has a network of footpaths and bridleways across small fields and through the woods, with views across Falmouth Bay from the higher ground.
For longer walks, you're ten or fifteen minutes from accessible bits of the South West Coast Path. The Helford circular is twenty minutes by car. The Lizard coast is half an hour.
We provide walking maps of the parish on arrival, and we're happy to point you at the right route for the day or the weather.
For visiting parents
Trewena is 1.3 miles (three minutes by car) from the Penryn Tremough Campus, the main site for both Falmouth University and the University of Exeter's Cornwall presence. The Falmouth town campus is ten minutes the other way.
A good portion of our guests are parents visiting their kids at the campus. We have a whole page on what that visit looks like.
More on Cornwall
Our local guide goes into more depth on beaches, walks, gardens, restaurants and day trips. Written from years of knowing the place.
For broader Cornwall coverage, we also publish Proper Cornwall, a county-wide travel site we've been building for years.
The cottages
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