Mevagissey Holidays

On your low-cost UK holidays in Mevagissey, Cornwall, you'll find a lovely working fishing port in St Austell Bay where ancient cottages lead down to ancient harbour walls. When the sun's out, you'll find delightful beaches at Portmellon and Gorran Haven. If it's not, Mevagissey has a fine model railway and a nice museum. Nearby, you'll also find the Lost Gardens of Heligan, a massive restoration project involving over 80 acres of gardens that include a working kitchen garden, exotic fruit houses and a sub-tropical jungle. Caerhays Castle Gardens continues the theme, with the National Collection of Magnolias and a vast collection of maples. The castle, too, is worth a visit, with its collections of Victorian jugs, crockery and Edwardian billiard room.

On cheap UK holidays in Mevagissey, try to get along to Charlestown Shipwreck and Heritage Centre to find out what it was like living in a Georgian village. There's a reconstruction of Charlestown Road showing different trades, an exhibition of gas appliances, and a network of underground passages, where clay was pushed to the ships in the dock. Not far away is the Eden Project, featuring the world's largest greenhouse and artificial biomes with plants taken from every continent. You'll find two enclosures that comprise adjoining domes consisting of many hexagonal and pentagonal plastic cells. One dome reflects a tropical zone; the other a Mediterranean. The Project is educational and enjoyable and a great family day out. Elsewhere, there are castles nearby at Restormel and St Mawes, a fine zoo at Newquay and ancient homes to explore at Trewithin House and Gardens and Lanhydrock.

The holiday in Cornwall is about as traditional as UK holidays get. UK beach holidays in Mevagissey on the Cornish coast offer you the chance of a cheap bucket-and-spade UK holiday with loads of great attractions, like the Eden Project, thrown in for good measure. There's also a fair chance of sunny weather in the summer. So book your cheap family UK holidays in Mevagissey in Cornwall online or by phone with directline-ukholidays.