Mullion

With historical pubs, restaurants and art galleries, Mullion is the largest village on the Lizard and a good base to stay or to stop off and stock up before you explore the beautiful countryside and coastline the area is renowned for. The heart of the village retains its Medieval origins sitting around the church, whilst 20th century development has seen houses spread down toward the coves at Mullion and Polurrian.

There are hotels in the area with stunning seaviews plus a number of campsites/holiday parks. The village also has self-catering properties of every shape and size,

At the local church you can see some rare 16th century pew ends intricately carved and depicting scenes from Christ’s passion, caricatures of clergy, bacchanalian figures and even Jonah in the belly of the whale. The north door of the church contains a dog flap which for centuries allowed local sheepdogs to run freely in and out of the building.

Mullion Cove on the west coast of the Lizard Peninsula is a small sandy beach, mostly covered at high tide, beside the historic lifeboat station and picturesque Mullion harbour.

Owned and cared for by the National Trust, the small Victorian harbour originally built in the 1890s sits along an unspoilt coastline of rugged headlands and small islands, the largest, Mullion Island – an uninhabited sanctuary to for nesting seabirds. The small quay remains a working harbour today and protects a fleet of small boats from the full force of the Atlantic.