Carbis Bay (Cornish: ''Karrbons'', meaning "causeway") is a

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and village in

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, England. It lies southeast of St Ives, on the western coast of

St Ives Bay St Ives Bay (, meaning "Ia's anchorage") is a bay on the Atlantic coast of north-west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in the form of a shallow crescent, some 4 miles or 6 km across, between St Ives in the west and Godrevy Head in ...

, on the

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coast. The

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passes above the beach.

History

Carbis Bay is perhaps best known as the location of the

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in 2021.

Geography

Carbis Bay is almost contiguous with the town of St Ives and is in St Ives

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(part of the area served by St Ives Town Council), which encompasses St Ives, Carbis Bay,

Lelant Lelant () or Uny Lelant is a village in the civil parish of St Ives 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 ...

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 is on the St Ives Bay Line in Cornwall, England, 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. Carbis Viaduct is situat ...

, above the beach, is one of five railway stations on the

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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, Cornwall, St I ...

, which is also at Rose-an-Grouse. St Erth station is the junction for the main line to

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. 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

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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 copper ...

Local facilities

Notable structures

The parish church of St Anta and All Saints Carbis Bay - geograph

The parish church, which is dedicated to St Anta and All Saints, contains a

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of ten bells. This was the largest peal in a Cornish parish church until St Keverne's bells were increased to ten in 2001. The Carbis Bay Hotel, 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 No ...

. Behind the village stands the Knill Monument, known locally as "The Steeple", a high monument to

John Knill John Knill (1 January 1733 – 29 March 1811) was an English attorney who served as the Collector of Customs at St Ives, Cornwall, from 1762 to 1782. Knill is primarily remembered for having his own memorial constructed, a three-sided granit ...

, a mayor of nearby St Ives during the 18th century.

Transport

Carbis Bay is connected to the national railway network by the

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to St Ives branch line. St Erth is on the Cornish main line linking

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. Road coaches also operate to and from London and St Erth on the

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(London–Penzance) service. There are local buses to and from St Ives / St Erth / Hayle / Penzance / Helston and other areas. Overnight travel services include the ''

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'' sleeper train between Paddington and Penzance via St Erth. A night coach via

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(arriving 05.30am) and

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(arriving 06.30am), calls at Carbis Bay and West Cornwall.

Schools

St Uny Primary School, a

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voluntarily controlled by the

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, is situated in Carbis Bay.

G7 Summit

In June 2021, Carbis Bay hosted the

Cornish wrestling

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tournaments were held on Longstone Down, Longstone, which is now part of Carbis Bay.West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser, 14 July 1820.

References

External links

St Ives Town Council

Visit St Ives Information Centre
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