Recently I’ve been a lot to Kingsand/Cawsand, two small, lovely villages in Cornwall just (almost) opposite Plymouth, outside the breakwater and lying in Cawsand Bay on the Rame Peininsula.

Both Cawsand and Kingsand are easy to reach, either by car, public transport or by the little ferry that operates at limited times depending on the season.

Cawsand and Kingsand are essentially like one village, they have grown close to and into each other and when walking through the little lanes it is impossible to tell where one ends and the other one starts.

According to Wikipedia the two villages are twin villages but have not always been. Before a boundary change in 1844 the two villages were in different counties. Kingsand in Devon and Cawsand in Cornwall. The old house “Devon Corn” still shows the mark of the old county border.

Both Cawsand and Kingsand are a very popular destination for both foreign tourists and people from London and other larger urban areas coming to Cornwall for their holidays or a weekend. Despite the tourism both villages have kept their very unique and traditional character and not only for that they are a very popular target for hobby photographers and camera-equipped tourists alike.

Historically both Cawsand and Kingsand played their roles in smuggling and fishing. Fish cellars and old boat storage facilities can be discovered and explored along the coast.

Cawsand and Kingsand were home to a couple of famous personalities such as a commander under Admiral Nelson, Ann Davison, who later was to became the first woman to sail the Atlantic single handed in 1953.

Apart from the picturesque coast line, little lanes within the village and historically notable points of interest the area in and around Kingsand/Cawsand, the existence of a micro-climate, dramatic cliffs and lots of saturated green woodland paired with the traditional tranquility of the local villages with their calm pulse make the Rame Peninsula a very attractive destination for photographers and painters.

I have only briefly seen and discovered little of this amazingly picturesque piece of land at the beginning of the end of the land. I will definitely try to dig deeper and discover more of the partially hidden beauties around here.