About this guide
Mevagissey is a working fishing village on the south Cornwall coast, on St Austell Bay. This is a guide to it — the harbour, the beaches, the parking, where to eat and where to stay — written so that a visitor arrives knowing the place a little, not just its opening times.
Told by four people
The guide is told in four voices drawn from the village's own past: the night watchman, the fishlighter's wife, the pilchard seller and the smuggler. They are characters, not real named individuals, and they are a way of telling you about the place rather than a claim that any of them is speaking from beyond the quay. Each takes the subjects that were theirs — the watchman the history and the tides, the fishlighter's wife the harbour and getting on the water, and so on.
Where the facts come from
Facts here are taken from the village's and each attraction's own pages, and checked rather than copied from aggregators. Where a thing is a tale, it is called a tale. Opening times and prices are deliberately not listed, because they move — the link to the place's own site is always the right place for those.
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Contributors & thanks
Some of what you see here was made by other people. Thanks to Dan Cartwright for video, to Mathew Facey for photographs of Mevagissey, and to Matilda Björklund for the fish photography.
Contact
Something wrong, or something we have missed? Email mevagisseyinfo@gmail.com and we will put it right.
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