page_title: Porthcurno
section_title: Porth Chapel beach
hierarchical_section_title: Porthcurno / Porth Chapel beach
caption_attribution_description: English: Porth Chapel Beach from Pedn-men-an-Mere looking west. Chris Angove +44-1245-353646
context_page_description: Porthcurno is a small village covering a small valley and beach on the south coast of Cornwall, England in the United Kingdom. It is the main settlement in a civil and an ecclesiastical parish, both named St Levan, which comprise Porthcurno, diminutive St Levan itself, Trethewey and Treen.
  It is centred 6.6 miles west of the railway, market and resort town of Penzance and 2.5 miles from Land's End, the most westerly point of the English mainland. Road access is via the north end of the valley along a long cul-de-sac with short branches off the B3283 and land traditionally associated with the village, including its beach, is on the South West Coast Path.
context_section_description: Pedn-men-an-Mere overlooks the small secluded tidal beach of Porth Chapel to the west. Porth Chapel beach is named after the remains of a Christian site and medieval chapel visible next to the footpath about 30 metres (98 ft) above the beach. There is a spring known as the St. Levan Holy Well up on the cliff which may be reached by restored medieval granite steps. The steps were covered for many years but were discovered in 1931 by the Reverend HT Valantine and Dr Vernon Favel. They were restored in 2003, part of a Cornwall County Council restoration project and were opened by The Countess of Wessex.
caption: Porth Chapel Beach from Pedn-men-an-Mere
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