St Loy's Cove

St Loy's Cove
St Loy's Cove
	St Loy's Cove with Boskenna Cliff and Boscawen Point
	St Loy's Cove Location within Cornwall
OS grid reference	SW422230
Civil parish	St Buryan;
Unitary authority	Cornwall;
Ceremonial county	Cornwall;
Region	South West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Penzance
Postcode district	TR19
Dialling code	01736
Police	Devon and Cornwall
Fire	Cornwall
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	St Ives;
	List of places UK England Cornwall 50°03′07″N 5°36′00″W / 50.052°N 5.600°W

St Loy's Cove is a small wooded valley and beach in the civil parish of St Buryan in Cornwall, England, UK. It is located two miles to the south of St Buryan churchtown, and between Penberth and Lamorna.^[1] There are just a few buildings in the cove, one of which, Cove Cottage, provides bed and breakfast and a cafe. St Loy's is within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), the Boscawen SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) and is part of a GCR Geological Conservation Review site. The South West Coast Path passes through the cove.

Geography[edit]

The stream at the bottom of the valley flows out to sea under a boulder storm beach backed by soft orange–brown cliffs of head deposits formed by solifluction when the climate was similar to that of Greenland's today. These cliffs are easily eroded and amongst the rounded boulders on the beach are irregular shaped granite stones that have fallen from the cliff.^[2]

Boscawen SSSI[edit]

The Boscawen SSSI, which encompasses the whole of the cove, "is a nationally important site for Quaternary geomorphology and Quaternary stratigraphy. Coastal exposures at the site show a sequence of granitic shore platform overlain in turn by raised beach deposits and head deposits".^[3]

References[edit]

^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7
^ Lawman, Jean (1997). A Naturalist's Year - Wildlife at Land's End. Baron Birch. p. 154. ISBN 0-86023-522-X.
^ "Boscawen" (PDF). Natural England. 1997. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2011.

External links[edit]

Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Boscawen Geological Conservation Review Site Archived 30 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine
St Buryan Community Site Archived 28 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine
Cornwall Online Parish Site Archived 19 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine

[1] Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7

[2] Lawman, Jean (1997). A Naturalist's Year - Wildlife at Land's End. Baron Birch. p. 154. ISBN 0-86023-522-X.

[3] "Boscawen" (PDF). Natural England. 1997. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2011.

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