Information about Falmouth

Falmouth is a town and port on the River Fal which is on the south coast of Cornwall.

The main attraction to Falmouth is its harbour which is the third deepest natural harbour in the world and deepest in Wetern Europe. Dame Ellen MacArthur started and finished her round the world voyage from Falmouth.

There are literary connections too and Falmouth is the birthplace of Toad, Mole and Rat from Kenneth Grahame's classic Wind in the Willows. Florence Nightingale famously once stayed at the town's Greenbank Hotel. Her name in the register can be viewed at the hotel today.

Falmouth is well connected by the A39 as well as three railway stations; Falmouth docks railway station, Falmouth town railway and last of all Penmere railway station which is the oldest having been opened in 1925.

Falmouth has a multitude of shops, restaurants and cafes and is a convenient distance to the National Maritime Museum Cornwall and the waterfront.

University College Falmouth has two campuses in the Falmouth area; the original town site, Woodlane, and the other in the Combined Universities in Cornwall campus at Tremough, Penryn. The University offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses chiefly in the fields of Art, Design and Media.

With a host of celebrities who reside in the port and with plenty to do, Falmouth is one of the most attractive spots on the coast of Cornwall.

Photographs of Falmouth