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The Chairman
The St. Ives Hotel & Guest House Association
PO Box 4
St. Ives
TR26 1AA

Welcome to St. Ives, Cornwall. A place of dreams.

Welcome to the historic town of St. Ives in Cornwall. The official website in association with St. Ives Hotel & Guest House Association Ltd. This is St. Ives, one of the most famous holiday towns in Cornwall - a jewel situated at the south-western tip of this island kingdom yet readily accessible by road, rail and air. Crystal blue waters, the surf, the golden sands, year round sub-tropical temperatures and the warmth of the local welcome.

Today, as for centuries before, life centres around the harbour where fishing boats still moor alongside granite piers, their catch being sent around the world and earning an enviable reputation for its quality and variety in some of the finest restaurants.

The annual Harbour Day revives the hustle and bustle and creates a carnival atmosphere. Radiating from the harbour into the old town is a maze of narrow cobbled streets, lined by fishermen's cottages, many with the original steps to the first floor doorway. The ground floor would have been an open cellar housing fishing nets, boats and pilchard presses. Steep sloping passageways and secret corners conceal unexpected delights at almost every turn.

St. Ives during the summer months is a blaze of colour. Radiating from the harbour, its maze of narrow cobbled streets are filled with flowers - not particularly surprising for a town which regularly wins the 'Britain in Bloom' competition. A mild climate, warmed by the gulf stream and almost frost-free winters makes it possible to grow plants and shrubs normally native to semi-tropical countries hundreds of miles further south. Try us for a winter break in Cornwall!

World class St. Ives

St. Ives boasts the best beaches to satisfy every child's dream, a wealth of history and tradition amongst its cobbled streets and old fishermen's cottages. An International Centre for the Arts with more than forty craft shops and galleries as well as the Tate Gallery. Also part of the Tate Gallery is the Barbara Hepworth Museum, a lasting memorial to the great sculptress who lived and worked in St. Ives at her Trewyn Studio. Her workshop has been carefully preserved and the gardens and house contain many examples of her work and some of her finest pieces.

A jewel situated at the south-western tip of Cornwall flanked by miles of magnificent coastal scenery, surrounded by tranquil sub-tropical gardens and country lanes that are hedged with wild honeysuckle, foxgloves, montbretia and fuschias. Warm summers and Britain's mildest climate make St. Ives perfect for all seasons.


St. Ives Bay - what a place to live, what a place to visit! Bet you wish you where here...

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