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( 01736-755661;
www.philpspasties.co.uk
; 1 East Quay; pasties from £3)
According to many local afi-
cionados, Philps makes the best pasties in Cornwall, made to the same recipe laid down
by the bakery's founder, Sam Philps, some sixty years ago.
CAFE
£
Mr B's Ice-Cream
( 01736-758580;
www.mrbsicecream.co.uk
; 24 Penpol Tce; ice creams £2-3; 10am-5pm)
Scores of fla-
vours to choose from at this beloved Hayle ice cream parlour, including oddball choices
such as jaffa cake, bakewell tart and damson plum.
Bucket of Blood
( 01736-752378; 11am-11pm Mon-Sat, noon-10pm Sun)
A whitewashed, low-ceilinged inn just
outside the town centre, sporting quite possibly the best name of any pub in Britain (ap-
parently it harks back 200 years when a corpse was dumped down the pub well and made
the water run red, an incident commemorated on the pub's sign).
PUB
Getting There & Away
Bus X18
(hourly Monday to Saturday) Stops in Hayle en route from Penzance to Cam-
borne and Truro.
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The Penwith Peninsula
Taking its name from two Cornish words -
penn
(headland) and
wydh
(end) - Penwith juts
like a crooked finger stretching from St Ives to the most westerly point on the British
mainland at Land's End. Wild and remote, spotted with minestacks, ancient farmland and
windswept moor, Penwith was originally one of the Cornish Hundreds (a network of ad-
ministrative districts dating back to the Domesday Book) but the first settlers arrived long
before - this corner of west Cornwall boasts one of Europe's highest concentrations of
prehistoric sites, many of which predate Stonehenge and Avebury. Later Penwith became
a hub of mining activity and the area now provides a fantastic insight into the unimagin-
ably tough lives of Cornwall's tin miners.
A great way to tour the Penwith area is aboard the open-top double-decker bus 300
(Penwith Explorer), which runs from April to October.
