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Live views of St Ives Harbour via Orange Roofs St Ives webcam

Check out some of the best views of St Ives thanks to our live webcam. After you’ve had your fix, scroll down this page and choose your next holiday cottage in St Ives, Cornwall.

Holiday Cottages in St Ives

Why would you book your next holiday in St Ives, Cornwall with Orange Roofs?

Here’s why…

At Orange Roofs, we work hard to make sure our holiday cottages are well-maintained and loved. Each time a guest stays, we are itching to receive a review so we can keep an eye on the guest experience. If we can do better, we will do better. Nothing makes us happier than hearing just how amazing a holiday was!

We love holidays in Cornwall ourselves and have high expectations, so it’s natural we want to pass this on to our guests too. When you book through Orange Roofs, you will be confident we care (deeply) and that your positive holiday experience counts to us.

St Ives – a brief introduction

St Ives Harbour has a rich history similar to a Rosamunde Pilcher novel! It is steeped in tales of the sea, smuggling, pilchard presses and net lofts. The wharfside was a bustling working harbour with fishing boats, fish wives and traders. We recommend a visit St Ives Museum (above Bamaluz beach) to look at some nostalgic photos of the harbour as it once was. Equally, visit St Ives Archive online to arrange a visit to browse their many treasured photos of a time gone by. Fascinating!

It is a tidal harbour and has three piers; Smeaton’s Pier, West Pier and New Pier with two lighthouse’s on Smeaton’s Pier. The harbour still has a hand line mackerel fishing fleet as well as leisure moorings. Consequently, there is a constant flow of activity throughout the day. Smeaton’s Pier took three years to build between 1767 and 1770 and was intended principally to be a breakwater. Smeaton’s plans changed to give a vertical inner side to the pier in order for boats to lie alongside it.

Between 1888 and 1890, the Pier was extended, which included building the well-known ‘Arches’ built to help the sluicing of the sand. It was so effective, it sluiced the boats as well as the sand so was adapted with baulks of timber. The Arches remain an iconic and much visited feature of St Ives harbour particularly when the tide is out. West Pier, built in 1894, was a private venture for loading roadstone from greenstone quarries at Orange Lane and Carthew.  The new Lifeboat House and slipway was the most recently built between 1993 and 1994 to accommodate the new ‘Mersey’ class lifeboat and to house the Inshore Lifeboat in the same boathouse.

St Ives Harbour today

Today the harbour and wharf side is a favourite place for visitors to walk and enjoy all that is on offer. Watch the RNLI St Ives Lifeboat going about its practice exercises, SUP paddleboarders or swimmers enjoying the calmer waters. Eat an ice-cream or a sip a St Ives’ Gin while enjoying the view. You should try locally caught Cornish crab or a sip of Cornish wine or Cornish coffee. There are galleries to visit as well as gift shops and small independent clothes shops.

Much anticipated annual events draw big crowds such as the Food Festival every May, Lifeboat Day every August, the Music Festival in September, or New Year’s Eve where fireworks and fancy dress provide colour and much hilarity! There are cafes and restaurants to sit and enjoy the local produce.

The harbour beach is dog-friendly during most of the year so for all our guests wishing to bring along their beloved dogs, take a look at our dog-friendly holiday cottages. This is a wonderful beach to take your morning coffee and let your best friend frolic in the soft sand and safe waters. Boat trip companies run sea-fishing and sight-seeing tours of the West Coast of Cornwall from the harbour front plus, if you feel like being speedy, try hiring a jet-ski or a Fast Rib Ride for some thrills! For those that want to power their own water travel, you can hire Kayaks or pedal-boats too.

St Ives, Cornwall – award-winning

St Ives in Cornwall has been named one of the world’s top “emerging destinations” in TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice Awards 2021, and was the only British destination included on the list. We are incredibly proud (and lucky) to live here and share it with new and devoted visitors to our holiday cottages. Wherever you are in the world, see what’s going on with our HD webcam.

Harbourside holiday cottages

We have a number of cottages and apartments that line The Wharf that all offer the same view as our St Ives webcam. We also have a few beautiful cottages slightly set back on Mount Zion that are all within a pebble’s throw of the harbour beach. Want to know which ones these are? Using the search button below, type in any of the below and you’ll see what we mean!

  • 6 Sunnyside
  • Sea Fever
  • 2 Harbour House
  • Artists Harbour
  • Harbour Beach Cottage
  • Penhallow

Fact: 6 Sunnyside has exactly the same views as our webcam. Why? Because the webcam is on its roof!

Views from 6 Sunnyside apartment in St Ives, Cornwall

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