![Carbis Bay from St](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Carbis_Bay_from_St.Ives.jpg)
Carbis Bay (Cornish: ''Karrbons'', meaning "causeway") is a
seaside resort
A seaside resort is a resort town, town, village, or hotel that serves as a Resort, vacation resort and is located on a coast. Sometimes the concept includes an aspect of official accreditation based on the satisfaction of certain requirements, suc ...
and village in
Cornwall
Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...
, England. It lies southeast of
St Ives, on the western coast of
St Ives Bay, on the
Atlantic
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe an ...
coast.
The
South West Coast Path
The South West Coast Path is England's longest waymarked long-distance footpath and a National Trail. It stretches for , running from Minehead in Somerset, along the coasts of Devon and Cornwall, to Poole Harbour in Dorset. Because it rises a ...
passes above the beach.
Geography
Carbis Bay is almost contiguous with the town of St Ives and is in St Ives
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...
(part of the area served by St Ives Town Council), which encompasses St Ives, Carbis Bay,
Lelant
Lelant ( kw, Lannanta) is a village in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on the west side of the Hayle Estuary, about southeast of St Ives and one mile (1.6 km) west of Hayle.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 ''Land's End'' The vi ...
and
Halsetown. The 2001 census gave the combined population of Carbis Bay and Lelant as 3,482. Lelant, an older settlement which is one mile to the south-east, Carbis Bay and St Ives are linked by the A3074 road which joins the
A30 at
Rose-an-Grouse.
Carbis Bay railway station
Carbis Bay railway station ( kw, Porthreptor) is on the St Ives Bay Line in Cornwall, United Kingdom and serves the village and beach of Carbis Bay, a community that only adopted this name after the arrival of the railway in 1877. It is from v ...
, above the beach, is one of five railway stations on the
St Ives Bay Line which joins the mainline at
St Erth railway station
St Erth railway station is a Grade II listed station situated at Rose-an-Grouse in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It serves the nearby village of St Erth, which is about away, and is the junction for the St Ives Bay Line to St Ives. The station ...
, which is also at Rose-an-Grouse. St Erth station is the junction for the
main line
Mainline, ''Main line'', or ''Main Line'' may refer to:
Transportation
Railway
* Main line (railway), the principal artery of a railway system
* Main line railway preservation, the practice of operating preserved trains on an operational railw ...
to
London Paddington
Paddington, also known as London Paddington, is a London station group, Central London railway terminus and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the Paddington area. The site has been the London terminus of services pro ...
.
Carbis Bay overlooks the small bay of the same name (
Cornish: ''Porth reb Tor'', meaning "cove beside the eminence", part of St Ives Bay) which is bounded to the north by Porthminster Point and to the east by Hawk's Point and contains a popular family beach. Hawk's Point is within the
Hayle Estuary and Carrack Gladden Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and in the Victorian era was known locally for its pleasure grounds. The garden had a tea house and grotto; it was a venue for Sunday School outings and
Band of Hope
Hope UK is a United Kingdom Christian charity based in London, England which educates children and young people about drug and alcohol abuse. Local meetings started in 1847 and a formal organisation was established in 1855 with the name The United ...
galas. By 1880, the proprietor William Payne claimed in an advertisement that it was "the largest establishment of the kind in the West ...".
Mining
Wheal Providence mine in Carbis Bay is the
type locality of the rare mineral
Connellite
Connellite is a rare mineral species, a hydrous copper chloro-sulfate, Cu19(OH)32(SO4)Cl4·3H2O, crystallizing in the hexagonal system. It occurs as tufts of very delicate acicular crystals of a fine blue color, and is associated with other copp ...
.
Local facilities
Notable structures
![The parish church of St Anta and All Saints Carbis Bay - geograph](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/The_parish_church_of_St_Anta_and_All_Saints_Carbis_Bay_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1618145.jpg)
The parish church, which is dedicated to St Anta and All Saints, contains a
ring
Ring may refer to:
* Ring (jewellery), a round band, usually made of metal, worn as ornamental jewelry
* To make a sound with a bell, and the sound made by a bell
:(hence) to initiate a telephone connection
Arts, entertainment and media Film and ...
of ten bells. This was the largest peal in a Cornish parish church until
St Keverne's bells was increased to ten in 2001. The
Carbis Bay Hotel
Carbis Bay Hotel is a hotel in Carbis Bay near St Ives, Cornwall, St Ives, Cornwall. It is the most prominent building in Carbis Bay, overlooking the beach.
History
It was built in 1894 by Silvanus Trevail, Cornwall's most notable architect of t ...
, on the seafront, was built in 1894 by
Silvanus Trevail
Silvanus Trevail (11 November 1851 – 7 November 1903) was a British architect, and the most prominent Cornish architect of the 19th century.
Early life
Trevail was born at Carne Farm, Trethurgy in the parish of Luxulyan, Cornwall on 11 Nove ...
. Behind the village stands the Knill Monument, known locally as "The Steeple", a 50-foot (15 m) high monument to
John Knill, a mayor of nearby St Ives during the 18th century.
Transport
Carbis Bay is connected to the national railway network using the
St Erth
St Erth ( kw, Lannudhno) is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England.
St Erth takes its name from Saint Erc, one of the many Irish saints who brought Christianity to Cornwall during the Dark Ages, and is at the old crossing point of th ...
to
St Ives branch line. St Erth is on the Cornish mainline linking
London Paddington
Paddington, also known as London Paddington, is a London station group, Central London railway terminus and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the Paddington area. The site has been the London terminus of services pro ...
to
Penzance
Penzance ( ; kw, Pennsans) is a town, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is the most westerly major town in Cornwall and is about west-southwest of Plymouth and west-southwest of London. Situated ...
. Road coaches also operate to and from London and St Erth on the
National Express
National Express Group is a British multinational public transport company headquartered in Birmingham, England. It operates bus, coach, train and tram services in the United Kingdom, Ireland (National Express operates Eurolines in conjunction ...
(London / Penzance) service. Local buses to and from St Ives / St Erth / Hayle / Penzance / Helston and other areas run. Overnight travel services include the ''
Night Riviera
The ''Night Riviera'' is a sleeper train operated by Great Western Railway (GWR). It is one of only two sleeper services on the railway in the United Kingdom (the other being the
''Caledonian Sleeper'' services between London and Scotland). ...
'' sleeper train that operates through St Erth en route to and from Paddington and Penzance. A night coach via
London Heathrow
Heathrow Airport (), called ''London Airport'' until 1966 and now known as London Heathrow , is a major international airport in London, England. It is the largest of the six international airports in the London airport system (the others bei ...
(arriving 05.30am) and
London Victoria
Victoria station, also known as London Victoria, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Victoria, in the City of Westminster, managed by Network Rail. Named after the nearby Victoria Street (not the Q ...
(arriving 06.30am), calls at Carbis Bay and West Cornwall.
Shops
Shops include, but not limited to: Costcutter, Tesco, Carbis Bay Pharmacy, Katrina Zimmer hairdressers, barbers, animal vets and an optician's. These are all located on St Ives Road, the main road through Carbis Bay to St Ives.
There is a mobile post office that parks at the Carbis Bay Memorial Hall, on Tuesday and Thursday, 9.30am to 12.00 noon.
Schools
St Uny Primary School, a
Church of England School
A Christian school is a school run on Christian principles or by a Christian organization.
The nature of Christian schools varies enormously from country to country, according to the religious, educational, and political cultures. In some count ...
voluntarily controlled by the
Diocese of Truro
The Diocese of Truro (established 1876) is a Church of England diocese in the Province of Canterbury which covers Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly and a small part of Devon. The bishop's seat is at Truro Cathedral.
Geography and history
The di ...
, is situated in Carbis Bay.
G7 Summit
In June 2021, Carbis Bay hosted the
47th G7 summit.
References
External links
Carbis Bay tide timesSt Ives Town Council
Visit St Ives Information Centre
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Bays of Cornwall
Beaches of Penwith
Populated coastal places in Cornwall
St Ives, Cornwall
Villages in Cornwall