ST MICHAEL’S MOUNT
CORNWALL, ENGLAND
PAUL SCOTT
Our tour of St Michael’s Mount is split into five sequential parts as follows:
You can follow through the tour in sequence by first tapping / clicking on the ARRIVAL link above.
Alternatively you can start at some intermediate point with a tap / click on the appropriate link.
There is a link to some historical notes below.
HISTORY
[Wikipedia]
St Michael’s Mount (Cornish: Karrek Loos yn Koos, meaning ‘hoar rock in woodland’) is a tidal island in Mount’s Bay, Cornwall, England. The island is a civil parish and is linked to the town of Marazion by a man-made causeway of granite setts, passable between mid-tide and low water. It is managed by the National Trust, and the castle and chapel have been the home of the St Aubyn family since approximately 1650. Historically, St Michael’s Mount was a Cornish counterpart of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, France (with which it shares the same tidal island characteristics and the same conical shape, though it is much smaller, at 57 acres, than Mont St Michel which covers 247 acres). Mont St Michel was given to the Benedictine religious order of Mont Saint-Michel by Edward the Confessor in the 11th century. St Michael’s Mount is one of 43 unbridged tidal islands that one can walk to from mainland Britain. Part of the island was designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1995 for its geology.
A history of St Michael’s Mount can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Michael%27s_Mount .
