Mousehole Christmas Lights Cornwall

That house still stands today.

Mousehole christmas lights cornwall.

As far as christmas lights go you won t do much better then the mousehole harbour lights each december for over 40 years the village becomes an illuminated spectacle with lights not only on the cottages and quayside but in the harbour on the hillside and a cross atop st clement s isle in the bay. We would like to show you a description here but the site won t allow us. These lights take many weird and wonderful forms along with the. Three ships light up the harbour in mousehole presumably the three ships of christmas tales.

Part of the now famous christmas lights. Cornish christmas walk from mousehole to lamorna returning via fields with great views of mount s bay. Cornishstuff cornwall cornish news mousehole lights. Mousehole christmas light switch on 2019 december 09th 2019.

The famous christmas lights display in mousehole has been cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak. The trustees and committee of mousehole harbour lights have given lengthy consideration to the christmas 2020 lights display in view of the present covid 19 emergency and have decided to cancel all of the lights display this year. Mousehole is a picturesque fishing village on the south coast of cornwall between penzance and land s end. The mousehole harbour lights trustees and committee said it had little choice but to make.

A hundred years ago mousehole was a bustling port crowded with local fishing boats landing pilchards. The committee released a statement today that said the future situation at the time of this decision with lockdown and self isolation very much in place is still most uncertain and in view of the timescale involved in maintaining building and erecting the lights a decision had to be made sooner rather than later. It was sacked by the spaniards in july 1595 when the entire village apart from one house was burnt to the ground. While many villages towns and cities around the country will have long been illuminated with the glow of christmas lights one village in cornwall saves this special moment for when the festive season is well underway.