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Falmouth Tour: From Pirate Haven to Global Powerhouse

By Falmouth Uncovered
9.8 out of 10
Exceptional
Free cancellation available
Price is AU$30 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 1h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation

Overview

An award-winning storytelling tour that connects visitors to the Falmouth of centuries past. With passion, imagination and an eye for the funny side of things, we tell tales that transform our guests' experience of this wonderfully unique town.

Activity location

  • Killigrew Monument
    • Arwenack Street
    • Falmouth, United Kingdom

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Grove Place Toilets
    • TR11 4AU, Falmouth, England, United Kingdom

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Falmouth Tour: From Pirate Haven to Global Powerhouse
  • Activity duration is 1 hour and 30 minutes1h 30m
    1h 30m
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 11:00 AM
Price details
AU$30.27 x 1 AdultAU$30.27
Total
Price is AU$30.27

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Activity sheets for children
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Easily accessible for cruise ship visitors

Know before you book

  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Travellers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

Activity itinerary

Killigrew Monument

  • 15m
Your journey begins with the Killigrew family — powerful, ambitious, and with a reputation that blurred the line between respectable privateering and criminal piracy. They spent the 1500s earning a terrible reputation... but the 1600s building a new town.

Custom House Quay

  • 15m
Falmouth starts to take shape as a scrappy little sailors haunt. But with the arrival of the Packet Service, Falmouth is suddenly plugged into a global network. News, money, and people begin flowing through the harbour.

Gyllyng Street

  • 20m
At its height, Falmouth is thriving. Ships crowd the harbour, sailors fill the streets, and the town hums with international energy. Standing here, overlooking the water, you’ll get a sense of just how important this place once was.

Smithick Hill

  • 20m
But success doesn’t last. The same forces that built Falmouth begin to shift, and the town faces a sudden and dramatic decline. The confidence of the town begins to unravel.

Market Street

  • 10m
Even as Falmouth declines, great events still play out here. Think, cannibals, criminal trials, drama.

Prince of Wales Pier

  • 10m
Falmouth finds a new purpose. And so we end our tour reflecting on a storey of dynamism, possibilities and a hope for whatever the next day will bring.

Location

Activity location

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    Killigrew Monument
    • Arwenack Street
    • Falmouth, United Kingdom

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Grove Place Toilets
    • TR11 4AU, Falmouth, England, United Kingdom

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