Maenporth

[1] Maenporth cove faces east across Falmouth Bay with views towards Pendennis Castle and the lighthouse on St Anthony Head.

The beach head has been built up by easterly winds, and covers a previous natural harbour and human activity.

[2] Well sheltered for vessels against westerly winds, and probably navigable in the two flooded valleys above the beach head, the likely trading commodity was tin, brought overland from the west.

A trackway of this period routes west, past the creeks and riverhead of Helford, towards Helston and Penzance.

[4] On the night of 30 December 1978, the Scottish trawler Ben Asdale was wrecked off Maenporth in a heavy easterly gale, on the north escarpment, adjacent to a rock called the Devil's Eye.