Around Lizard, Lizard Wireless Station leads the list
What there is to see lies just outside: 3 places within 5 km of its edge. Tate St Ives, 34 km away, is the best-known day out.
The best known around Lizard
Alongside Lizard Wireless Station you find 2 museums.
Each has a page of its own: what it is, who runs it, the weather month by month and what else is near it.
Where to go
Predannick Anti-Aircraft Battery marks the outer edge, 3.3 km away.
The dashed line is Lizard’s built-up area; orange marks its middle (where most people live). Numbers match the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors · ONS built-up area 2022
Kinds of place
Every one of them is among museums or galleries.
Green: inside Lizard. Grey: within 5 km of its edge.
All of them, one by one
Nothing is inside Lizard itself; these 3 are within 5 km of its edge.
Close and well known first. Churches and listed buildings are on the History page, not here.
15 listed buildings and 1 scheduled monument are on Lizard’s History page → · Parks, footpaths and green space in Lizard →
Out of town
Leading the 12 is Tate St Ives, 34 km away; they include 3 castles and 3 gardens.
Art galleryTate St Ives34 km northwest · 214K visitors a year (2009)
Castle · English HeritagePendennis Castle23 km northeast
CathedralTruro Cathedral34 km north
Castle · English HeritageSt Mawes Castle24 km northeastGardenGardenTrebah16 km north
Garden · National TrustGlendurgan Garden17 km north
CastleCarn Brea Castle28 km north
ZooCornish Seal Sanctuary14 km northGardenGarden · National TrustTrelissick Garden30 km northeast
Historic house · National TrustGodolphin Estate22 km northwest
Theme parkThe Flambards Experience14 km north
Heritage railwayHelston Railway19 km northwestPlaces well known beyond Lizard (Wikipedia articles in several languages, published visitor counts, or a National Trust, English Heritage or Cadw property), close and famous first. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the town.
Lizard: questions and answers
What is there to see near Lizard?
No attraction is mapped inside Lizard itself. Within 5 km of it are Lizard Wireless Station, Lizard Lighthouse Heritage Centre and Predannick Anti-Aircraft Battery.
Does Lizard have a museum?
3 museums and galleries are in or within 5 km of Lizard: Lizard Wireless Station, Lizard Lighthouse Heritage Centre and Predannick Anti-Aircraft Battery.
Is there a National Trust or English Heritage property near Lizard?
None within 5 km. The nearest well-known one on our list is Pendennis Castle (English Heritage), 23 km northeast.
What are the best-known days out near Lizard?
Within 40 km: Tate St Ives (34 km), Pendennis Castle (23 km), Truro Cathedral (34 km), St Mawes Castle (24 km).
Where are Lizard’s historic buildings listed?
Lizard has 15 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. They are on its History page, from Historic England’s list, not repeated here.
How is this list made?
From OpenStreetMap (museums, galleries, zoos, theme parks and attractions, castles, forts and abbeys, and historic houses and gardens that are open to visitors) and Wikidata (what each place is, who runs it, its website and visitor counts). A place counts for Lizard when it is inside the ONS 2022 built-up area, and as nearby within 5 km of its edge. Opening times and prices are not shown: check the official site.
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (10)
- Tate St Ives: flickr user "Steve Parker", CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pendennis Castle: Darren Shilson, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Truro Cathedral: tracey maclean, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- St Mawes Castle: Claudiu Bichescu, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Glendurgan Garden: Daderot, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Carn Brea Castle: Bengoeswild, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cornish Seal Sanctuary: MortimerCat, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Godolphin Estate: waterborough, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- The Flambards Experience: Lewis Clarke, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Helston Railway: Tim Green, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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